RE: hiya, or the birth of the blog of Velveteen, or the introductory writings of I
hiya, thank you very much for such a lovely comment and warm welcome, yours is the first comment I consider real, I appreciate all comments however it is so nice to have someone show a genuine interest and yes I agree with you, there is a good connection between us, I believe strongly in connections, its one of the wonderful things about a place like steemit to meet and connect with another person, that to me is of real value, I also strongly believe that many of us have a real capability to access much more of our intelligence, our minds capacity is amazing , all we lack is someone to show us how, to me the different ways we all access our minds capacity is just that; different, I have an autistic child, I have been lucky enough to experience new ways of looking at life and different ways of utilising experience and intelligence, through my child I have learned so much, they teach me every day, yet on paper my child is labelled autitistic and learning disabled, every time I see it my blood gets a little agitated and I feel resentment, my child is very intelligent, they utilise their intelligence in a different way and they experience sensations differently however I will never label anyone and I do not like the fact that society and especially the nhs confine my child within a a little box on a form labelled autistic please tick here, I accept that my child will always need protecting and supervision but I see that as a shortcoming society places on us as my child is the sweetest and kindest person it is society they have to be kept safe from yet it is them who get labelled, its a subject i could go on for hours about ; the concept of intelligence and societies confines regulating what is perceived as intelligence, i do feel for you and you have my empathy to attend meetings with people who place you in such a situation is difficult and you have my respect, I really dont like meetings and i am very lucky that now my new life has begun there are none to attend, my children and i are safe and that is all i care about, i call it the gas/leccy/food combo ^^ once we had a safe home i knew as long as i had gas electric and food we were good and everything is ok ^^ it is wonderful to meet you and I look forward to many chats , its a lovely feeling to find a friend thank you for being my friend, I appreciate your kindness and love your sense of humour , much respect to you and i wish you a lovely evening ^_^
You are very welcome. I made one decision regarding this platform was to be myself. For better or for worse. I guess I sound genuine, because I try to be. I treat others the way I want to be treated. I comment the same way. I can't stand the 'Good post' only comments. Thank you so much for trying to kiss my butt to try to get me to follow and upvote you. Not happening. I only upvote and follow genuine people. Now if I could find a bot to clear out my followers to do the same LOL It's say when you have 380 followers and maybe 10 react to you in someway. I guess the other 370 are on vacation.
Luckily the meeting is just for better employment, but is designed to help me find work that will work with the PTSD and anxiety. Sadly I'm bad enough to be labeled disabled, but not disabled enough to be disabled. I love our system. Not that I want the label at all, I don't. I just want help getting re-educated to get out of customer service oriented positions. It's horrible I could go work for $2/hr more by working at McDonalds, than staying where I am. It's just my patience with people has grown thin over the years.
Your family is lucky to have someone like you. I know quite a few people with an autistic child and only know 2 have the same feelings you do. They try to be as normal as possible, make allowances for their triggers and take every possible step to educate anyone that tries to label them. It take a strong person to be able to do that. Instinct is to coddle them. As you said you've had to find a new way to look at things. That is the best way to be.
🍸 To new friendships