James's Notebook

           A challenge that I face with autism is that I have a difficult time identifying social cues, this is challenging for me because I have noticed that when it comes down to identifying what a person is feeling it can be very difficult for me to recognize facial expressions and tone of voice. The way that I have over came this challenge was to first understand that everyone much including myself has emotions and could display them in many different ways because of this people will show how they feel through body language whether it would be through a facial expressions or by subtle motions with a persons posture or body language. the next thing that I do is to notice the tone in a persons voice, now normally when I hear a persons tone of voice they could have any number of ways to express any emotion whether it would be anger, joy, annoyance, fear and many others as well. The second thing that I notice is that people will display their emotions ...

            In my previous post I talked about how to move forwards from stressful experiences in this post I will go into further detail as to how I move on from the past. the first step I take is to acknowledge that in the past I did not know any better than I did now but the best thing about it is that if I had not had the experiences I have had then I would not have the experience I have today that I needed to become a much stronger person whether it would be emotionally or physically. the next step I take is to acknowledge that I am not in any way perfect as a human and  to understand that I will make mistakes in my life as I have stated before in an older post titled "how to think like a champion". Then I realize that without the challenges I have faced back then I would not be were I am today and that these issues I faced were a part of my growth as a person. the last step that I take is to remember that if I deal with the difficult challen...