Send me pasta sauce recipes, I’m serious. I just learned how to make a good white sauce and I’m feeling adventurous. Educate me how to make a good sauce! perhaps I can take a picture or two.
1863-project:
“For some reason or another, I’ve decided that 2017 is going to be the
year that I make that major breakthrough on my childhood bullying trauma
that’s prevented me from trying to talk to men my own age. I’m not
entirely certain as to why this happened, but I have some ideas.
The project I’m working on, the Autism Gaming Initiative, is hopefully
going to be a monthly charity gaming stream once I have it in gear where
the group of us - all autistic gamers - stream for as long as we can to
raise money for the Autism Self-Advocacy Network and Autism Women’s
Network. I wouldn’t have even thought to do this, however, if it weren’t
for a group of streamers who I’ve been watching quite a bit lately. You
can thank the fine folks at Vinesauce
and their charity streams benefiting pediatric cancer research for
motivating me to do this - I was watching part of an older charity
stream and saw them reach their fundraising goal, and hearing them all
chiming in on their audio chat and thanking each other and the viewers
for all their help was simply amazing. It was one of those moments where
people do something bigger than just themselves, and it made me realize
that something I enjoy doing in my spare time could actually be used to
help other people like myself.
So here we are in March 2017, and I’m learning how to be a good video
game streamer. I’ve been binge-watching the various streamers of
Vinesauce to learn as much as I can in a short period of time (one of
those autism benefits is that your brain is a sponge when you’re
motivated) and I’m looking to get everything pulled together so we can
do our first charity stream in April or May, likely the latter. You can
follow my learning process on my Twitch page - I’ll probably be streaming tonight, in fact - and jump in on the chat as I play all manner of weird things.
Now, why is all of this important? Last year, the Vinesauce team actually had a booth and a panel at TooManyGames,
a gaming convention in Philadelphia, and they’re going to be back this
year for round two. I’m within driving distance of Philadelphia and now
fully intend to go to TooManyGames and try to actually thank them for
inspiring me to take this project of mine on. Meeting people who I’m
inspired by is always very daunting for me, but I’ve decided that I
absolutely have to do this because this would be a huge step forward for
me in redeveloping social confidence. I’m not going to let myself
chicken out of this one, so I’ve been getting as many of my friends as
possible to hold me to doing this and even go with me to ensure that I
actually go and say hi to them at some point.
Anyway, writing this on here is another way of holding myself to doing
this, so please watch this space and come late June I’ll report back on
the whole thing. I’m trying my best here!”
It’s very tough due to my social anxiety, but I’m going to do this because sometimes you just have to tell people how they’ve helped and inspired you. Hold me to this, everyone, because I’m determined to do this.
Thank you so much for the kind words, I’m so happy our charity inspired you to also take part in such a fantastic cause and to spread awareness.
Awesome idea and this is something I support 100%. If you get a chance to reblog this, do it.
