A Christmas Catch up and Happy New Year

Christmas day had been an unusual day, as it is the day something goes wrong and it didn't. Everything is there pretty much on time. I had my presents🎁- which included an adorable Eevee. I gave my presents🎁 to my parents they both enjoyed them. We also were host to a guest- Which was something we don't normally do. It was nice to host for once, we rarely do it. I hope they had a good Christmas day.

For my family we celebrate Christmas from the 24th December - 31st December then celebrates New years on the 1st of January. Which is a little odd I know, but also why I haven't posted anything for that time? We aren't a religious household we go off me and my dad's Taoist ideas of; Peace, understanding of people & togetherness. They sound simple, but they can be hard to keep by, especially if it is for a week😑. We little to no arguments and understanding of everyone. For Boxing day I had to cook, luckily no one got poisoned😌. I like this part of the year because it shows how independent I can be💪. Although I usually hurt myself, it doesn't matter as I get to cook a meal for the whole family.

This had been an interesting year for me. I started this blog💬, I was able to do an apprenticeship & I am halfway through my first year of university🏫. I hope next year is even better and I get to do more for promoting autism awareness. At the start of the year, I got my formal diagnosis of Asperger's Syndrome/ High Functioning Autism. I looked at lots of places to see where I could get help, without people talking down to me and will give advice if you haven't got the diagnosis on paper. Clue; there are little to none😕.

I talked to the National Autistic Society, who wasn't at all helpful and actually made it harder because the information I wanted to know they didn't have and then they try to point out they are the best autistic charity around and help support people around the UK, then I found other places that did have the information I wanted to know, but in the USA. I tried NAS again but then found out all the jobs they help autistics to get are either low-level mundane jobs or very low maintenance jobs such as office blocks. If you were doing a degree you were pretty much on your own. If you wanted a job that needed a degree you were pretty much on your own. Then when you look at the structure the people in charge aren't autistic. Some are parents of autistic children or they have done a diploma or a degree to understand autism. That's not quite the idea for a charity that supports autism if the people you help people understand autism aren't autistic. So I thought I would do help my way. Through this blog.

Thank you for reading. I am going to start my Atypical reviews next week. Also, my next blog will be on Sunday. If you wanted to see me react to NAS watching Rainman 😖 click here. If you wanted to see where I left Atypical click here.

 I hope everyone has a Happy New Year🎉. I hope it is going to be everything you want it to be.


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