The last six years have been a long road for me to adhere to, accept, understand and manage life with medication. While I have always understood the need for my medication and the struggle to get the right cocktail. Over the past year I have experienced what life could be without it and now realize the necessity of having my medication in my life. I now fully understand and accept the necessity of having my medication along with managing the side effects that come with it.

While having times where I experienced life without the side effects that I was for some time discouraged to have, they really had no value to me and make life more challenging and eventually as it always does, it crashes and burns, and it never results in anything truly beneficial for me. Everyone knows that I am not myself when I do not take my medication and share serious concerns when I didn’t adhere to what I was supposed to do.

As far as some of the struggles with my medication in the present moment as far as being drowsy, it does happen, and I rest accordingly when it becomes necessary to do so. I am in the process of making my bedroom a screen-free zone. It is something that I learned from another content creator when it comes to sleep.

It has been proven that nearly a third of the autistic population experiences challenges with getting a normal sleep pattern. I am one who experiences such and as I take a medication to aid in that process, it is something that I have struggled deeply in accepting that it is a necessity to not only in being able to sleep, but also in curtailing other challenges that I face.

Over the past month, life events have occurred with my family that have begun to get my life back on track and I have finally acknowledged the fact that I am the same person that I was when I slid off track nearly six years ago. I understand the importance of my medication and while the stressors of life have since been eliminated or decreased in that same six years, life indeed is better than it has been in quite some time and with being independent in the mix, it just makes life so much more enjoyable.

There are also other things that have happened to me that made me take a step back and realize that I need to simplify and even reduce to be able to better manage things. Sometimes things happen for a reason, and now that I have finally accepted and understood the necessity of having to take my medication, I know that life is what it is and I must do what I need to do to make life better for me.