The Asperger's Girl Guide

This Weekend has been a challenge...  Stress and anxiety are the main enemies that I have had to face as well as dealing with the new neighbours from hell.  I've managed to be good, cutting to 2-3 cigs a day and using my trusty friend the inhalator and chewing gum to avoid cravings /replace a cigarette and have been still using the patches as well.  The problems started on Sunday, it was a Bank Holiday Weekend in the UK which means we don't have to go to work on Monday and plus it was extremely sunny and hot so sitting in the garden reading was perfect until the new neighbour decided he wanted to host what I can only describe to be a rave from 3pm to 2am in the morning!  Before you think I'm being a party pooper, it was a professional PA with Decks plus a microphone and baring in mind I have Sensory Processing Disorder*  and anxiety I was in that twilight zone between being able to cope or having a raging meltdown, and to deal with said emot...

Being Comfortable in your own skin isn't all about what you look like on the outside. It's about excepting every aspect of yourself from the inside out, and this includes loving the unique little quirks that make us who we are.  I've struggled with this my whole life and especially when I found out about being autistic when I was just dealing with being a teenager let alone autistic.  As i've matured and become to understand myself more as an Aspergers gal and embracing my little quirks and characteristics that make me who I am, has made me more happy to go out into the big bad world and start living.  I'm comfortable with the fact that I'm a major geek (kind of like this guy on the right but not as anti-social or completely off the scale Autistic), I love Comic Books, Star Wars, Harry Potter and the list goes on and on as I'm that geeky.  "I love the fact that I have a way to escape the world that we live in and submerse myself into...

Loving and respecting yourself is an important thing, it's something that you keep developing as you grow as a person but it is the foundations to who you are and helps you to understand who you are as a person inside and out!  Being confident and comfortable with who you are mentally and physically resonates from within yourself and then outwards to others around you, this includes how you feel about being an Autistic person.  There is no such thing as 'perfect', the media and society want you to strive and aspire to be perfect but lets face it, if everyone was perfect then life would be ultimately boring!  Being classed as not good enough has a negative effect on your mental health which then knocks onto your physical health and the way you perceive yourself is vitally important and it isn't for everyone else around you it's actually only for you and you alone.  I know this from experience, from negative labels being placed on me because I didn't fi...