Since the cool kids are doing it :-)
Here's another introduction post.
Here I am. This is me. I am 43 years old. I live in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. I live with two cats and I have a boyfriend who lives here part-time. When you're on disability benefits you're not allowed to live with anyone full-time because the government expects them to support you. I'm actually not on disability right now, but I probably will be next year because I have a seasonal job.
I was diagnosed with diabetes in the early 1970s. I was diagnosed with clinical depression sometime in the 1990s. I was diagnosed with asthma and fibromyalgia around 2000-2001. I was diagnosed with an autism spectrum disorder and a learning disability in 2005. I haven't been diagnosed "officially" with anxiety, but I definitely have that too. I think it was just sort of lumped in with my depression diagnosis.
Last year I had two cataract surgeries in the spring and summer. Before that, I had terrible, constant headaches and neck pain for over a year from the effects of eyestrain and my constantly moving my head around trying to find the spot on my glasses where I could see best. Just a few months after the headaches and neck pain went away, I was in a car accident that brought them all back again.
As I said, I work on a seasonal basis, and so does my boyfriend. I'm a transcriber and an editor; he's a tax preparer. I work in the spring and the fall; he works during tax season.
While I do have friends (a lot of doctors seem to find it hard to believe that I have friends and a boyfriend, because of my being autistic), I do most of my social interaction online. I have a blog in which I write about my life on the autism spectrum: http://purpleaspie.wordpress.com . I also have a diabetes blog: http://diabeteblog.blogspot.com . Neither of them is updated nearly as much as my LJ is updated. However, I recently joined an autism writer's group, and I'm hoping that will help me find new ideas for the autism blog. The diabetes blog may have to fall by the wayside because I can never come up with ideas for it.
Here I am. This is me. I am 43 years old. I live in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. I live with two cats and I have a boyfriend who lives here part-time. When you're on disability benefits you're not allowed to live with anyone full-time because the government expects them to support you. I'm actually not on disability right now, but I probably will be next year because I have a seasonal job.
I was diagnosed with diabetes in the early 1970s. I was diagnosed with clinical depression sometime in the 1990s. I was diagnosed with asthma and fibromyalgia around 2000-2001. I was diagnosed with an autism spectrum disorder and a learning disability in 2005. I haven't been diagnosed "officially" with anxiety, but I definitely have that too. I think it was just sort of lumped in with my depression diagnosis.
Last year I had two cataract surgeries in the spring and summer. Before that, I had terrible, constant headaches and neck pain for over a year from the effects of eyestrain and my constantly moving my head around trying to find the spot on my glasses where I could see best. Just a few months after the headaches and neck pain went away, I was in a car accident that brought them all back again.
As I said, I work on a seasonal basis, and so does my boyfriend. I'm a transcriber and an editor; he's a tax preparer. I work in the spring and the fall; he works during tax season.
While I do have friends (a lot of doctors seem to find it hard to believe that I have friends and a boyfriend, because of my being autistic), I do most of my social interaction online. I have a blog in which I write about my life on the autism spectrum: http://purpleaspie.wordpress.com . I also have a diabetes blog: http://diabeteblog.blogspot.com . Neither of them is updated nearly as much as my LJ is updated. However, I recently joined an autism writer's group, and I'm hoping that will help me find new ideas for the autism blog. The diabetes blog may have to fall by the wayside because I can never come up with ideas for it.