Lea Michele - Auld Lang Syne - New Year's Eve

3, 2, and 1.

finishing off my top ten, I am going to try to explain the rest of the list. #3. No organizational skills needed. this one is pretty self-explanatory. I don't know how to organize any thing really. I often times just mimic everyone else way of organizing. A few things might make it different, but over all, I just have to copy what every one else does, and then make it my own.

#2 Taking as much time as you need to do the little stuff. it's true that I take a lot more time then others to do things, but in the long run it helps because I set aside as much time as I need to get things done for myself. I sometimes get frustrated with myself about this, but in the end I know it's the best way to do things. Because of this I have taken more then ten years to get a Bachelors degree, however, in the long run, no one can discriminate that I didn't do it. Also, if it came down to it, I could also point out of the weaknesses I have, I could overcome them.

#1 calling people on living in there own world. A common misconception of being Autistic is that we live in our own worlds. I would like to clarify this. Every one in the entire world lives in there own world. Autistic people just have a harder time getting out of it, and making ourselves more relatable to every one else. keep in mind as well that because we live in our own worlds it does not mean that it a happy world, or that it is convenient in any way. For a long time we have been thought of as dumb, stupid, and retarded because we do not fit into the mold of what every one else has been able to accomplish. In an educational situation, many of us are star shaped blocks that people have tried to force into the shape of a triangle or square opening. I can guarantee I have felt dumb because of this comparison, and I am betting I am not the only one. The trouble with this is that there are certain parts of being in this group that others have tried to lump us into others. Like saying we fit into a group of dyslexic people or the ADD/ADHD spectrum, or the OCD scale. no one can fully define what being Autistic is. the only way I know how to explain it is just to say I think, act, learn and behave differently then others do. I know it exists because of certain outcomes that have happened in my life. This is a major reason why it took me so long to get a diagnosis.

Judy Garland - Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas

# 4, People seem to care about you more then usual

In leu of the holiday spirit, this one seems to be more appropriate then most. for some reason I never quite understood why, people seemed to root for me more then usual, especially during the Holidays. I guess that's the ultimate underdog story of how someone is troubled by something that they overcome. Only in my case, I didn't really know what I was overcoming, except for myself, and my own tendencies for setting myself back. I didn't know the name until I was a full grown adult, and since then, I have been trying to not revert back to a few tendencies. My family also found it odd how people seemed to recognize me in one form or another, even when I didn't recognize them back. People also did the 12 days of Christmas on me for more then one year in a row, because they liked me. To all of you who have helped me out throughout the years I thank you Profusely, and I hope you have a Merry Christmas.

#5 best mashups in the world

This isn't one of the best examples, but it's cool to have this kind of imagination, and the right equipment to do it. other mashups, in my head, can get even better then this one too.

#6 Be your own Best friend

#6 and #7 are very similar in that they kind of deal with the same subject. Because autistic people are loners, we end up being our own best friend. It is a different coping mechanism then the last one stated, however they are similar. In a way, this one ensures that we can be more self reliant then we would normally be, but it's different because #7 is a way of coping with depression, that autistic people are prone to. #6 helps us realize that we are not the worst people in the world, when we screw up, and that every one else makes mistakes too. In a way it's a way of letting go of the things we can't control.

Dancing with myself glee

Inside jokes

#7 You can have inside Jokes with yourself

Most people who are autistic are considered to be loners. For me though, I have always had a certain amount of people who cared about me in one form or another. However one major way that I was able to carry on in life was that I would randomly start laughing at something that others would not get. For me it was definitely a copping mechanism. Sometimes I would hear something wrong and it would show when it sounded funny, however most times when I would bust out laughing for no reason I would remember something, an image, or an instance that would remind me of a funny moment in my life. I can't always control when I get these, just when I do, it's usually at a time that I am stressed out or depressed about something. One important thing to realize though, was that as I can get happy images, and depressing and frustrating images as well. Many people say that autistic people live in there own worlds, but keep in mind that it is not always a happy world.