What are you doing to better your life

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Do you have plans to make life better for yourself, that’s is completely different from the NTs around you or do you intend to do thing the NT way.

Mine is trying my hands at affiliate marketing and web design. This will be hard work, long hours and plenty of time studying. At the moment, I am the only one in the office, searching for affiliate guides and web-design tips.

My line manage know that I might end up hanging around late at work so she told a supervisor to kick me out before seven o’clock. She also warns me to come in so early in the morning to.

When I was in college I had a mantra "What am I doing this very second to improve my situation". If I was walking from building to building when the thought happen I would began repeating lists of things I was trying to memorise in my mind. Over and over.

I also have my own IT bussiness ideas I'm working on (though rarely now).

I've spent thirty years trying to understand the space between my ears. Lots of reading in psychiatry and psychology plus human behavior, neurology and lots of other stuff. I'm now a LOT better and life is good.

Ed Almos

I am attending college, seeing a therapist (not very much but at least a bit), and trying to get out of the house a lot more. Aside from that, I really don't know of anything else I can do.

Two letters: DX

Personally, I'm studying web design to go with my graphic design to make the transition from retail work to more artistic work. To do that, I learned to type, use the Abobe Creative Suite, and took a course on computer programming, something I've always been scared of. It's eaten up all of my free time, but I like it and it's already made a difference in my employment, since I've done some design work as well as office work thanks to the computer skills. It's also increased my pay rate above minimum wage.

I've also taken a more proactive stance in promoting and writing my music, getting onto iTunes, and generally not being afraid to sell it. Studying economics helped, since previously I believed on some level that the arts were a luxury, and that real work consisted of farming, construction, and the like, things that produced food, shelter, etc. That comes from a blue collar background. But I've learned that art is a psychological need, and economically, that division of labor and free trade have created more potential worth than any agrarian society ever did. And without music, as Nietzsche said, Life would be a mistake.

The other thing that helped was the philosophy of Objectivism, which I've found really beneficial from an aspie standpoint; seeing that I was something of a space cadet before, it's given me a newfound respect for reality and logic that was lacking, and it has only improved my imagination and artistic creativity, because now, instead of being lost in space, I'm making my own little world. And it's given me a moral foundation that justifies my existence in this life.

I am attending college.

Tim

I am saving my money and working on restoring my driver's license, and I might take up a few
industrial arts courses at the local community college.

Me? It’s what I’m not doing that’s bettering my life. What I’m not doing is worrying about other people’s reactions to mine. Everyone wants me to play a game. They don’t like that I don’t play it. I go on with my life and they go on with their game, which suits me just fine.

I got my Dx and I bought noise-reducing headphones. I've ordered a weighted blanket. I've got a plan to turn my apartment into an aspie paradise, sensory-wise. I'm doing online volunteer work, which makes me feel good and some of it is fascinating. I'm losing weight (4 lbs lol) and getting a little exercise.

I'm... uh... buying lots of action figures?

I seem to once again be in that all-too-familiar position of wanting to change but being too afraid to do so

Sinister, "I seem to once again be in that all-too-familiar position of wanting to change but being too afraid to do so."

Here's a mantra that helps me when I get that way: "Courage is not the absence of fear, it's the willingness to face that fear." And I learned that from a Batman comic, so that doesn't preclude action figures.

Introspection
self analysis
Asking NTs how they think, feel, react, deal etc.

I will continue to work on my interview skills to advance at the library. I hope to have a full time job when the new library opens in 2008.

I want to try to get my driver's license.

Nothing. I've already done enough. Now I'm content .

(Well, I suppose I could stay away from NTs even more than I already do...... )

Growing my own herbs and vegetables.
Learning Buddhist theories on happiness
Oil painting.
Going to the gym and trying to be fit
Got diagnosed
Reading about my condition
Trying to practice compassion for those less fortunate.