Who Do You Want to Be?

[i_renovated]

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Coming from behind the mask that I had always used to hide my Asperger's Syndrome has been a very freeing thing.  It has given me a new chance at life.  It has cost me much, but at the same time those losses were things burdening me with the mask of social normalcy anyway.  It's interesting to me, that in the months following diagnosis (finally

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WTG - Keep on Going Over the Top!

[i_are_woman]

I read your piece and your Facebook comment about what do I want to do 15 years from now. Like I said, I need a rain-check as I am struggling to find benefits to cover my arse until the next round of financial aid hits in early February. I'm not working though it's hard to say that being a student ISN'T working. I'm working about as hard right now as I did when the kids - now I may have 3 Aspies! - were toddlers

[renakuzar]

a few years ago, when I struggled with what I thought was schizophrenia, I had many of the same struggles.

I finally settled that who I am is a question answered by two sets of people, and those that have the final say on the subject will be those who remember me after I die. So I will not worry about who I am, I will leave that as a question, and let myself explore that question in the relationships I have with others, with the world, and with what I am trying to accomplish.

Success for me has become simply knowing what the important questions are and living a life following them where they lead.