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The Confidence Issue

As someone with Autism, Confidence can seem something that is non existent in our lives.  But when does the confidence issues become more than just an issue with image or appearance and begins to dictate your life?  I have thought about this a lot, and the more I think about confidence the more I realise that although Confidence comes from within ourselves (like it should do I might add) the more I seem to look at myself and think why do I feel like I do and is it to do with the fact that I am lacking in confidence?  Since I was a teenager (this is the stage where confidence is either there or not) I have always struggled with confidence. It started with a negative body image and it has took me to my age now to finally except myself and think that I am beautiful just the way I am. "If my 15 year old self could see me and how I except myself, she would try to pick out some type of flaw and now she would only find the scars from an operation and the scars she gave her