Granted, life being autistic isn’t always easy. While there are good things, there are things that make life just as difficult for us. It doesn’t mean that we always have to find all that is wrong with us. Sometimes, we need to make the best of what we have. This approach helps us to be as positive as we can be with the life that we are handed.

I will be the first to tell you. My life in the near past few years hasn’t always been the easiest to digest. On top of that, I have had many changes happen in the way that things happen in my life. I have overcome my own personal struggles. Still, at times, I feel that life has misled me. This occasionally makes me feel down and out about myself. I have had to learn that gets me nowhere. I need to move on by having a positive mindset.

There can be countless finger pointing as to why things are the way they are. But that would only make things worse. Things did not happen in the lives of my own family by the ways that they wanted to. They are just the hand that they are dealt to us. We learn how to manage them as well as we can, even though that can be difficult sometimes. It can make me feel as though my life has been different. I feel I have been robbed of so much. I underwent this life to support my family. They were in their time of need.

Autistic people can often be self-centered. At the same time, we show empathy in our own ways. It can be a delicate dance that often seems unfair to me. But I keep pushing through making the best of what I can because I know that is best. I do have my moments from time to time. There are times when things show their worst. Still, knowing that seeing some light even in the worst days makes things so much better for me.

I know that dwelling on how bad that life is does not help things for me or those around me. As hard as it is sometimes, I must see that things can be better. I need to believe that there is always something to live for. This belief will bring joy to my mind. It takes letting go of the things that I can’t be changed and learning to live with them. Indeed, not everything has been easy for me or those I love in the past few years. Still, adding on my own wallows does not help others who are struggling in their own ways. I had to learn to let go of my own self-pity. I needed to start seeing the positive in the situations that I have had to endure.

Granted, life is never easy and can change in an instant. It has been hard for me at times to adjust. But adding my own misery on top of what is already happening makes things worse. It creates more challenges for me. Others do not need the strife added to their lives.