Finally

Wow what a week it has been. I moved my entire classroom to a new state of the art video arts facility, finished and graded and 40 final movies, turned in end of semester grades and completed my website on Asperger’s Syndrome. My site should be visible and active sometime tomorrow afternoon. The website and research has been a hard project for me to stay focused on with so much life and activity happening around me but I really believe that all the things that have attracted my attention have served to make me more resolute in my conviction and desire to make this site a reality.
Looking back on the journey I’ve been so blessed by the cheering on of so many in our local Asperger’s community, so many of them want to see my site become a reality. One person has particularly inspired me is a young man called Charlie. Charlie is a very bright and unique young man with a wonderful drive and dedication and the courage to cross into a no man’s land known as the theatre. I can’t imagine how scary it must have been for a young man who suffers from the socialization issues of Asperger’s to face a crowded room of people who are watching his every move and listening to his every word and knowing full well that what he is doing is facing his greatest source of anxiety in his life. Bravo Charlie bravo. Thanks Charlie for asking me to give you a chance and thanks in return for giving me a performance and life lesson that in never dreamed receiving. It’s a bit funny but when I look back on my time with Charlie the only thing that he ever asked of me was to have an opportunity to try, my wish for my website is that maybe another Charlie will get an opportunity because some else dared to cross into an unfamiliar land and grant someone else and opportunity.

Finally