Milestones or Steps Completed! Share and Celebrate Here :)

@GlenM

I learned the value of humility through my pathway!

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I completed self-love growth path. 🥳

https://www.7cups.com/path/playlist/self-love-today-and-everyday/

I learned that being able to love ourselves is important, because we cannot love others if we do not love ourselves.

I need to change my mindset. somehow, I am back to doubting myself and my direction.

I passed my Active Listening 1 test! Get in!

Here comes level 2...

I take walks in the morning. It helps calm me down somewhat. I still have major issues with depression and isolating myself. But I am trying to talk about it.

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i have learned to be grateful for everyone who has supported me, who couldn’t be bought, who had goodness in their heart enough to stand up for me, even in small ways.

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Received the Compassion Hero badge!

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This is a total autistic milestone/celebration and it might not make sense to anyone here. Yesterday I grieved the fact that I had autism. I cried about the challenges I've faced and how hard it can be every single day. Tbh with you all, I gave up like 2 years ago I stopped trying to be normal. Honestly, I thought that was progress like blind acceptance about being autistic and "if you don't like how I act, you just have to deal with it" mentality. I acted autistic and just did not care. But now I've weakened all of my relationships and I've gotten stuck and made some pretty dumb choices. The truth is, autism is really hard, it's like having a job understanding social ques and understanding social situations. You need to be a reporter, a behavioral analyst, a wallflower, and a researcher just to understand enough in social situations before you can really even be yourself. It's SO MUCH WORK! It's part of the reason autistic people love being alone, it's one of the only times they don't have to do this exhausting job. But I've accepted autism is part of who I am. No matter how hard I work at this job, I can never retire until I die. And I've come to terms with this. I stopped working on my autism, but I'm going to go back to my old job of working hard socially so I can live my life with others. In all honesty, despite all the hick ups, I've enjoyed my 2 years of solitude and I'm sure I will have times where I will miss and long for it again, the laziness. I just have to remind myself of how many things went wrong when I ignored all my responsibilities and I'll be back on track I'm sure. Tonight I did a "ceremony" I was home alone and I got ice cream and put it in a cup (my parents just moved and dishes are limited). I was going to light a candle but all I could find was cardboard I folded into an accordion strip and I burned it. As it burned, I ate the icecream. To me this was a ceremony to celebrate my new life of actually caring and trying. I'm taking on my job again with all the social challenges of autism and I'm not letting the troubles stop me. From now on I have a new job. It's called the captain. The captain is all the additional things I have to do everyday because I am autistic and I take this job very seriously. I am going to be a captain and I am going to be a great captain and I really don't have a choice otherwise. I've probably successfully confused everyone. What I am trying to say is I'm finally going to take charge of my life again in spite of having a disability. Boo Yah!

@GlenM

Meeting a friend who isn’t toxic at all and loves me for who I am <3