In over the last two months there have been a lot of changes in my life. Sometimes it takes getting down to the nitty gritty of what needs to be done to start the process of being able to move forward with the many changes over the past few years and start to work them into your life along with having a grasp on taking care of my mental health in the process, slowly adjusting to life as it is ever changing.

Change has always been challenging for me. There have been several changes over the past few years that have made life challenging for me. On top of that I was not being consistent with caring for my mental health in the way that it needed to be cared for, resulting in several mental health breakdowns that were very challenging as they had been for years prior, but ultimately things had to change to require me to be independent with less familial support and I realized that my mental health has to be more of a priority in an already challenging life.

Through the many changes, many of them affecting my daily life, it has had its ups and downs, but ultimately it was understanding that while I do have some family that support me, but I also need to be a support for them too as my parents are now older in age and events have changed how their support is with me.

Change for an autistic person is never easy, especially some of the changes that were hard on me. But I know that as I move into what seems to be another decade in my life as an autistic man, they are building the path that I need to go towards making my life even better. Ultimately finding the tools necessary to work at making things easier for me when they are more challenging for me by coping with the anxiety they bring on in life by working to manage myself and my body.

When I do get anxious about changes by using the tools that help me, like grounding for example that I first had a hard time understanding but now find beneficial to me in times of anxiety. While I for the longest time never fully understood, getting reacclimated with the Bible and other Christian readings has helped in making things better for me and although for the majority of my life Christianity has spoken to me in the way that it does now, it has been the catalyst that has changed my life for the better.

Overall, I have found that while some changes can be unexpected, when doing things like forming a new habit it is realizing that it is important to not be in a hurry when working to work towards incorporating something new. It is by taking it slow and not being hard on myself in the process while being patient and giving myself Grace when things do not go according to plan can go a long way in helping making things go smoother and work my way towards going forward.