Through the Rain

Daily Energy I’ve been thinking about this a lot going through my first week of work and especially through my first weekend between work weeks. For once, I felt like the slow kid in class, and it did not feel good at all. I went from Honors College to barely comprehending six hours of information spread out over seven and a half hours with quizzes and questions sprinkled in. I was the one asking most of the questions. One thing I found out didn’t help is when the instructor decided to pull up the different screen with every question and show us in the “actual website” we would be using where the answer to the question would be. Usually, this would be very helpful indeed! Why didn’t it help me? I have no idea! Everyone starts with a base rate of energy. This is the energy they have without doing anything. Before they shower, go to work, walk even, they have an energy level. This is affected by how you slept the night before, what you ate, etc. I did everything I could to keep my energy...

The Autism Epidemic So Robert J Kennedy Jr has declared that autism is going to be the next focus… because he’s cut funding for research towards pretty much everything else. So, by September we are supposed to know the cause of this supposed “autism epidemic.” Except, if you know anything about how psychiatrists diagnose autism, then you already know about “why” said “epidemic” is occurring. He just doesn’t have five minutes or the correctly educated staffing to know how to proceed with this “mysterious knowledge, so let me give you a quick background without looking anything up, but from what I’ve learned in social work classes, okay? Health insurance companies like neat little boxes called “diagnoses” in which to fit a person’s symptoms. From there, they can base what medications and therapies a person might “qualify for” based on their algorithms or whatever. I’m not a health insurance person, but I know about the textbook psychiatrists, psychologists, and social workers use to make...

Skills There have been so many things to write about and yet no energy to write that I have written nothing down. Hopefully this will help capture a snapshot of what I have been experiencing lately. Everyone starts learning different skills from the time they are born, whether they are aware of it or not. If they don’t practice these skills, then the skills either get rusty or just fall into disrepair altogether. Take my learning of languages, for instance. I took a semester of French. It didn’t take long for me to forget “all” that I learned in that semester. I took years of Spanish. I still know some words, but the near fluency I once had is far gone since I haven’t used it in years. The same goes for American Sign Language. These were skills that I practiced and honed until I got better and better at them. Then one day, I just stopped using them. The reason why might be a different blog post. For me, there are two types of skills: there are skills that are consciously learned throug...