When my mom asked me how I felt about creating this list, I told her that it made me feel “incrementally more powerful”.
- I want to finish high school.
- I want a college diploma.
- I want a master’s degree.
- I want to stop allowing autism to define my life.
- I want to change the way the world sees autistic people who cannot speak.
- I want to improve my socializing skills.
- I want to learn how to build a social network that introduces autistic people to improved methods for living independently, and as a tool for socializing.
- I want to write a book with my mom about what it has been like to realize the son she thought she had is not the son she really had.
- I want to write a book that changes the way the world thinks about non-speaking autistic people.
- I want to make this list a reality.