Paul Wilson (12
May 2012)
"prayer
request"
I am sorry if this isn’t in perfect
paragraph form English was NOT my best subject. If you take your
time it will make sense.
I am asking for your prayers in dealing with my Asperger's. I
was not diagnosed as a child and while I haven’t gotten a
official diagnoses yet after mom talked with a nurse at her
doctor’s and found out the nurse’s son had the same symptoms as
me but got diagnosed with Asperger's we looked up Asperger's and
found that it fits me to a tee. Since I wasn’t diagnosed as a
child I never receive the social therapy that could have helped
me as a result I have NO in person friends and No really life
outside the house and a social phobia keeping me back. I have a
lot of anger about not being diagnosed properly. it wasn’t my
parents fault and while it wasn’t a diagnoses when I was first
evaluated it became one a few years later yet I was not
re-evaluated. I also get depressed because I have no friends I
have no job I have no life outside my house. I had a friend in
2-4th grade before I moved to my current state he was two years
younger than me which probably made things easier. Last
Christmas I read in the letter his family sends at Christmas he
is getting married this year (may already be by this time). Two
years younger he is married and I have yet to have one date.
One of the hardest parts is my gift from God (possibly through
the Asperger's) is working with elementary and pre-K kids yet in
todays anti-male society, thank you radical feminists, any man
who can work well with kids and is really liked by them is
instantly labeled a pervert and treated as such in the
professions working with kids. Day care is only 4% male so I
have better odds of winning Powerball than getting into day
care. and in elementary school they real don’t like caring men
so it is only 9% male. I volunteered at a local one and they
kids gave me hugs but the teacher’s, ALL female, saw it as I
gave them hugs (the children initiated but as far as the women
were concerned I was initiating the hugs). (the words one said
to a boy who had his arms out to hug me – “Don’t hug him” still
ring in my ears) I have the gift from God and NO way to use it
in a male hating society. What’s is really tough is these days
more children especially boys grow up with out a father at home,
sometimes he walks away sometimes she (wife) pushes him out, and
could use a good male role model or father figure. Society
seems to be at war with males especially men but even boys are
treated badly often medicated because they aren’t like the girls
who sit still and do the worksheets put in front of them. Our
boys are emasculated and grow up to be emasculated men. Yet
society heralds this as progress.
I try to find a job, because I would like to increase my giving
to charity, but it is not easy. Because of my early experiences
with girls I was distrustful of them and my experiences with
women, and feminism, have not made me less distrustful but more
distrustful of females. Of course I didn’t understand social
norms rules and expectations so I had no male friends either.
Though I do work better with boys I trust them more. It seems
easy to work with, and get along with or befriend, elementary
and earlier kids I guess because the social cues like body
language and having to read between the lines aren’t present
yet. The social rules are simpler and easier to figure out. It
is hard when you look around you and see you old classmates are
married have jobs and kids and houses and you have NOTHING. My
mom has been really understanding and helpful I thank God for
her and dad has been somewhat understanding but I don’t think he
really understands what I am going through.
You know who I talk to the most?? Myself. Not audibly just in my
head. I know it sounds crazy or meshuga but I am the only one
available to talk when ever. You try finding someone at midnight
or 1 am. I always discuss things as if talking to another
person, I did this as a child, but because I have no one else I
must discuss things with myself. It is kind of sad but when you
have no friends where else do you turn?? I talk to my mom a lot
but sometimes it just seems easier to work it out myself. and if
she is asleep I have no one else to go to. One thing I like
about the internet is I can connect to people all over the
states and the globe but I don’t really know them and it isn’t
the same as having a in person friend. It is hard feeling so
alone.
I am indoors a lot because of the sensory issues with direct
sunlight. I can go outdoors but I like to limit how much. Being
in a car is better than walking.
I know God has things for me in the NJ like a nice house of my
own, children to raise as my own, extra doggies and other
animals to care for, fiends both young, my age and older, and I
know he has great things for me in the MK and beyond like being
a elementary teacher (K-6), a pre-K Sunday School teacher( or
Saturday School whatever day the Sabbath we observe will be I
don’t care which it is), and maybe even a youth pastor (or rabbi
or whatever title we have) for Junior youth (2 yo-7th grade). I
would prefer to be called “Uncle Paul”. ( I have been called
“Cousin Paul” by my little cousin whom I dote on, I just wish
they lived closer not across state, and “Mr. Paul” by the kids I
have worked with in elementary schools and hope to be “Dad”, the
best title, in the NJ but the title that would be great to have
in the MK and eternity, second to “Dad”, would definitely be
“Uncle Paul”. I would enjoy have a innumerable amount of nephews
and even nieces). I am a only child. mom told me that one time
when I was walking down the hall at home when I was young I was
leaning on the wall a bit and she heard “if you have others
they’ll be jealous” and that factored into be not having
siblings. So I have no biological nephews and nieces. But we all
know families are built on love not on biology so the kids in
the MK will truly be my nephews and nieces.
To restate I would like your prayer’s dealing with this
Asperger's and the associated feelings (anger and depression).
Paul