Redoing☆Childhood

I had a pair of rollerblades when I was a kid that were given to me by a family friend. From time to time I'd mess around on them, riding up and down the hallway in my house but I never really had the confidence or dedication to practice with them enough to actually get halfway decent. Over the last few years though, I've been seeing lots of cute videos on social media and the occasional skaters out in public so my interest in skating grew and I developed the desire to take up the activity again as an adult. I wanted to get rollerblades (inline skates) rather than quads as these were the types of skates I'd had as a child, plus I'd also wanted to take up ice-skating which is fundamentally the same procress as rollerblading. I did go ice-skating a couple of years back and really enjoyed it. Things did get busy however, and I haven't been since but I do definitely want to try going again.   A couple of weeks ago I bought a pair of rollersblades and a set of pads (knee...

Cheerleading My first encounter with cheerleading came when I was in my first year of secondary school. It was the first time I'd seen anything to do with cheerleading in the UK, before that I'd just considered it to be an 'American thing'.  I remember seeing a poster in the P.E. block at my school that advertised an allstar cheerleading club. I only considered it for like 5 seconds before my low self-confidence got the better of me and I pushed the thought aside. I hadn't even been diagnosed with autism yet but what I did know was that I was awkward and clumsy so there was no way I'd be able to do something as athletic and complex as cheerleading.  The type of P.E. sessions we did changed from term to term and around that time we were doing gymnastics. Gymnastics is a large part of cheerleading. The sport also includes dance and stunts. I absolutely hated any form of P.E. because in my mind I wasn't the least bit athletic, was terrible at sports, and plus ...

Around two or so years ago I discovered Menhera. So, what is Menhera? The word itself comes from the English words 'mental healther' and was inititally just a Japanese slang term to describe those who suffer with mental health issues. Eventually a kind of subculture formed around the word that focused on the creation of mental health-related vent art and from this a fashion style also emerged.  Menhera fashion - like the subculture it itself - quite simply focuses on expressing ones own personal struggle with mental health issues. Since it's quite a personal style and made to be accessible to all kinds of people regardless of any possible health issues, there aren't any specific 'rules' to the fashion. It's really about what 'mental health' means to the individual wearing the style. There are however, certain styles and themes that are popular, as well as lines that individuals are encouraged not to cross. Such as, for example, imagery that may be ov...

This isn't my first blog and will it be my last? Who knows? So here's a story I'm almost tired of telling at this point; I have autism. A common 'symptom' of autism is what's known as special interests. What are special interests then? Special interests are a particular topic, thing, person etc. that a person with autism will develop a fixation with, often causing them to neglect other interests or even necessities in favor of this one thing that seems to demand all of their attention. Special interests aren't always a bad thing. The image of autism that's often painted in media afterall is of the autistic person who may have poor social skills or be lacking in other areas but their almost 'obsessive' interest in a particular subject has led them to become an expert at it, allowing them to achieve great success. For a lot of autistic people though, this can be far from the truth. What happens when your special interest is something other people d...