Adults On The Autism Spectrum

Thank you @mamacita.

You gave me inspiration for my day!

Hi everyone! Benjamin Franklin once said something to the effect that , if we don't have too high expectations in the first place, then we won't find ourselves disappointed all the time. Close enough. Interesting for him to say. He invented bifocals, experimented with electricity, and was an ambassador to France. He was a well loved statesman and wrote under an assumed name. Yet he still struggled. He felt that his character was lacking in some respects, and set about to change.
I'll stop right there and say that I believe he had good intentions. He achieved what many would call success in his life. I have often wondered if perhaps he was on the Spectrum. Autism is not new. It has been around for a very long time. Did he ever get up in the morning, have his cup of tea, look out his front door and think "What can I do today that will make a difference in the world?" Or did he simply do what many of us have learned to do? Make the best of a very challenging life...living every moment to the best of our ability. Enjoying our friends, our family, the beauty of nature...

But what if there are severe problems in our family, our friends, our community? Do we sit idly by and hope for the best? Or do we step up, step out, doing whatever we can to understand and care for situations that land on our doorstep? It has been said many times that if you see the problem, then you are meant to address that problem in some way.
I cannot be where you are and do what you can do. I cannot compare myself to you and feel jealous that you appear to be getting more attention than I am. It is not a race. I am not in competition with anyone. We are in this together. We can each do our part to advocate, to spread awareness, to model acceptance. We are better together! Can I pop in later to see how you are all doing? I miss all of you when I don't hear from you once in awhile! Hugs!
Mamacita

Thank you @mamacita.

You gave me inspiration for my day!

@sirgalahad you said "Autistic are extremely empathetic and we do have feelings its due to the bullying intimidation and denigration we revert to our core autistic acts to calm and stabilize us."

I was hoping you can help me understand that sentence, I had a Traumatic Brain Injury in 2015 and interpreting the meaning of things is very difficult.

I have been struggling more and more since my TBI and have come to understand that before my head injury I somehow managed to get through life, not very successfully but I was able to function. I am determined to find answers and help because the ways things are now, I am not living, I am just existing.

can I also add I was just informed that I either have cholestoma or dehiscence of the semi circular canal and will be up for surgery to get ear drum off inner wall of the middle ear and may have to rebuild the bone between the ear and the brain. dehiscence is the possible death of the cilia hair inside the semi circular canal and or the little balls attached to the hair and this is responsible for balance and dizziness

CAN I ALSO add to advise that we stim which is moving our hands and body or we rock and we ultra focused to also calm ourselves and then we scream and verbalize and burst out yelling and continue to on and on until we get all our frustrations

cholestoma is condition whereby the ear drum adheres to the inner wall of the middle ear and this can lead to bon diease and breakdown of that bone which protects the brain . semi circular canal sits high in the inner ear and it conducts the sound to the auditory nerve and onto the brain and its also responsible to manage balance and stabilize you when moving turning ahead or looking up and down and it allows you to do this with out feeling giddy and permamnently sea sick
the other thing is possible death or the tympanic bones and which takes the sound from the drum to the semi circular canaland onwards to the brain