Comments on: My Autistic Life is Looking Up http://www.journeyswithautism.com/2009/10/05/my-autistic-life-is-looking-up/ Ethics, Disability Rights, and Reports from Life on the Spectrum Wed, 08 Feb 2012 03:19:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Melissa http://www.journeyswithautism.com/2009/10/05/my-autistic-life-is-looking-up/comment-page-1/#comment-67542 Melissa Wed, 07 Oct 2009 12:15:26 +0000 http://www.aspergerjourneys.com/?p=3721#comment-67542 oops. Last paragraph, It's not hitting bottom, it's hitting your core, and from our core we are ALL things. oops.

Last paragraph,

It’s not hitting bottom, it’s hitting your core, and from our core we are ALL things.

]]> By: Melissa http://www.journeyswithautism.com/2009/10/05/my-autistic-life-is-looking-up/comment-page-1/#comment-67541 Melissa Wed, 07 Oct 2009 12:14:51 +0000 http://www.aspergerjourneys.com/?p=3721#comment-67541 Out of everything you said, the first paragraph had the most impact on me. I don't have to be autistic to know frustration, grief and pain. And I do know these emotions, they are so essentially human. There is no shame in crying. There is no shame in letting yourself wrack with sobs so that you feel it in the bottom of your heart. There's a reason we are designed with the ability to cry like that. We need it. Only society tells us to keep our chins up and keep plugging along. making our stress greater, and our depression worse. There is something to fake it till you make it, but there is something pure, and self-finding to just let the raw tears flow, and let your body move with it, let your voice join in. It's not hitting bottom, it's hitting your core, and from our core we are things. Out of everything you said, the first paragraph had the most impact on me. I don’t have to be autistic to know frustration, grief and pain. And I do know these emotions, they are so essentially human. There is no shame in crying. There is no shame in letting yourself wrack with sobs so that you feel it in the bottom of your heart. There’s a reason we are designed with the ability to cry like that. We need it. Only society tells us to keep our chins up and keep plugging along. making our stress greater, and our depression worse. There is something to fake it till you make it, but there is something pure, and self-finding to just let the raw tears flow, and let your body move with it, let your voice join in.

It’s not hitting bottom, it’s hitting your core, and from our core we are things.

]]> By: Kate http://www.journeyswithautism.com/2009/10/05/my-autistic-life-is-looking-up/comment-page-1/#comment-67495 Kate Tue, 06 Oct 2009 18:54:08 +0000 http://www.aspergerjourneys.com/?p=3721#comment-67495 Very good Rachel! Very promising, all o that it seems! Wish I was closer! :) Have fun! Very good Rachel! Very promising, all o that it seems! Wish I was closer! :) Have fun!

]]> By: LizzieK8 http://www.journeyswithautism.com/2009/10/05/my-autistic-life-is-looking-up/comment-page-1/#comment-67485 LizzieK8 Tue, 06 Oct 2009 11:51:01 +0000 http://www.aspergerjourneys.com/?p=3721#comment-67485 Good news! Keep us posted! Good news! Keep us posted!

]]> By: misfit http://www.journeyswithautism.com/2009/10/05/my-autistic-life-is-looking-up/comment-page-1/#comment-67483 misfit Tue, 06 Oct 2009 11:05:28 +0000 http://www.aspergerjourneys.com/?p=3721#comment-67483 wonderful to hear that things are looking up. I was wondering if you had stopped with the ASL classes altogether. Hopefully you'll be able to find tutoring you'll be comfortable with. the whole non-verbal thing is interesting too. I'm afraid I talk a lot, probably too much. But the idea of not talking is beginning to fascinate me. I'll have to check out that thread on WP. I'm open to learning more about it. I have been socially awkward all my life and tend to talk more when I am nervous. When people speak I might have a clue as to what is going on. When they don't speak it's uncomfortable and confusing for me. (But then again sometimes when they do speak I am uncomfortable, depending on what is said and how it is said....) Time to step out of my (un)comfortable zone and learn about a new way of being and interacting. I'm looking forward to hearing how it goes. wonderful to hear that things are looking up. I was wondering if you had stopped with the ASL classes altogether. Hopefully you’ll be able to find tutoring you’ll be comfortable with.
the whole non-verbal thing is interesting too. I’m afraid I talk a lot, probably too much. But the idea of not talking is beginning to fascinate me. I’ll have to check out that thread on WP. I’m open to learning more about it. I have been socially awkward all my life and tend to talk more when I am nervous. When people speak I might have a clue as to what is going on. When they don’t speak it’s uncomfortable and confusing for me. (But then again sometimes when they do speak I am uncomfortable, depending on what is said and how it is said….) Time to step out of my (un)comfortable zone and learn about a new way of being and interacting. I’m looking forward to hearing how it goes.

]]> By: Ben http://www.journeyswithautism.com/2009/10/05/my-autistic-life-is-looking-up/comment-page-1/#comment-67473 Ben Tue, 06 Oct 2009 00:34:06 +0000 http://www.aspergerjourneys.com/?p=3721#comment-67473 so happy to hear this :-) so happy to hear this :-)

]]> By: DonkeyBuster http://www.journeyswithautism.com/2009/10/05/my-autistic-life-is-looking-up/comment-page-1/#comment-67471 DonkeyBuster Mon, 05 Oct 2009 23:34:25 +0000 http://www.aspergerjourneys.com/?p=3721#comment-67471 Great developments, Rachel! I'm excited for you. With regards the non-verbal autist... I've just found the non-verbal thread at WP and am learning tons about alternative communication and polite interactions... I recommend it as a resource for the two of you. http://www.wrongplanet.net/postt73273.html Great developments, Rachel! I’m excited for you.
With regards the non-verbal autist… I’ve just found the non-verbal thread at WP and am learning tons about alternative communication and polite interactions… I recommend it as a resource for the two of you.

http://www.wrongplanet.net/postt73273.html

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