A Day In A Life Of An Autism Person by Adam Fowler
Written on 20th May 2021 by Alex Lowery
Hello everyone. It’s been a while since we’ve had a guest article on this blog. Below you can read an article by Adam Fowler who is on the autism spectrum. It is about his day-to-day life. Please do give it a read and you can check out Adam’s website here.
Do most people think that People with autism have a normal day-to-day life? Nope? Sometimes people such as myself have different experiences with autism and learning disabilities. In this article, I’ll be talking about some of the experiences and emotions I go through every day as a person on the autism spectrum.
Morning
Like every day, we always have a morning, usually, people have set times when they like to get up in the morning which is me, I have a set time of waking up and doing work (it all depends if I’m working or not). If I’m working I normally get my gear together and head on downstairs and have some breakfast, for food I’m going to be open and honest with my readers, I only have some toast, bananas, and a Lidl vanilla yoghurt, I know it’s something different but when I was younger I had an ear operation to take something out and it affected my tastebuds. Now I can only have certain foods that I can eat and make me feel comfortable, I’m taking vitamin supplements to help me get where I am today. then I’ll take a shower and prepare for what today has to offer.
When I wrote this article it was in the middle of the covid19 pandemic, which is kinda hard for an autistic person to understand like we all have to wear masks, but people with autism have to wear a special mask? not true, I know some people who went out who don’t want to wear a mask as some people feel it’s uncomfortable which is understandable, I wear my mask every day for my family where if it is at work, cinema or in my town centre, I wear it for my family.
Afternoon
This is where I usually work on my projects, I work on many projects, whether it’s updating my photography portfolio, modelling or just sorting out the twitch channel, I have something to keep me going, I’ve started doing some twitch streaming mainly in the evening to connect with my friends and the community who knows about me and we play some games (shout out to them, you know who you are). I’m also passionate about getting the word on autism to everyone, I work on doing autism awareness presentations to show people who I am, what I have done, what I have been through because it’s really hard for people to understand what I go through, my current work wants me to do this so I’m doing a presentation to them about it. I’ll use this to show my workmates what I go through every day and also to spot the signs if someone like me enters our workplace. then I’ll settle for lunch which is usually a buttered sandwich (strange, I know!)
Evening
If you live by me, the days go really fast and the evening is where I just want to kick back and relax and if I choose continue working on my projects and speaking to my friends over on social media. I also stream video games on twitch during this time after my dinner (which is a bowl of french fries, I’m not picky) but when I stream I escape from reality for a bit and just enjoy myself for 2 hours or so. One of my awesome friends on twitch named pam bamgoinham has also introduced me to a tool that helps me when I’m stressed out and need some time, It’s called headspace which is a free app that helps you relax and do some meditation. It helps me a lot in stressful situations. When you think about it, autistic people have a mind of their own, one minute your happy then the next you could be depressed but when you know people who look after you, they can make you feel better and support you.
This is a little summery of what I go through on autism but I have other articles about mental health and autism which you can read on my website! Adam x
This article was originally posted to Adam’s website. You can see the original article here.
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