Aspie chick with a wild streak

 So, for the month of March of 2025, here have been some of the highlights of this month so far: As always, the usual highlights of March are that we get Daylight Savings time, again, and the Shamrock shakes at McDonalds. But this for me, the highlights for March also include my participation at Disability Awareness Day for the 2nd year in a row, although it all had to be moved online, this year. I also got to go to the State capitol of Wisconsin to take part in a protest. On the 14th of March, I got to experience some summer like weather, and again on the 28th of March as well as possibly the first thunderstorm of the year. I also got an account on Hulu, so I can now stream and binge watch episodes of the Golden Girls, as well as watch a documentary I've been wanting to see about people with disabilities being able to get married and making it legal. Also 2 more seats in the senate have flipped from red to blue in Pennsylvania. YES!

  So today, I’ve been doing some therapy on myself. And I’ve thought of this. Why do I even throw the R-word around? I know I’m not calling anyone that really does have an intellectual disability the R-word to their face and I know I’m not prejudice of people who have that kind of disability. So where is it coming from? Probably anger based, due to the fact that when I was 23 and again at 27, I’ve had airhead professionals talk my parents into forcing me into some day programs against my will, because they were too dense to listen to me, when I told them NO. And these programs will claim they work with all types of disabilities when it’s a bunch of bullshit! If they really did work with all types of people with disabilities in there, you wouldn’t just see people in there who really were mentally challenged. You’d see people in there who were on the milder end of the autism spectrum, you’d see people in there who are deaf, people who are blind, people with learning disabilities, pe...