Are you happy with how your life is turning out?

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I am not happy about how it is turning out with the cancer, stroke, bieng on SSI, medicaid

I am happy about how I am coping with all this s**t. I would have never been able to do this had I not gotten diagnosed just before all this started. I now know what will trigger me and I am not as hard on myself as I would have been. Hanging out here, posting all the autism stories on WP has given me a purpose in life.

65%

I would guess 75%. I never really thought about my future when I was in school. The only thing I knew I really wanted was to be out of school & I achieved that dream after I graduated high-school. I have an amazing girlfriend that I'm living with. We would like to be married but it'll screw up her benefits cuz we're both disabled. I have worked some in the past & I kind of miss some things about it but I'm not looking for a job rite now cuz my girlfriend has anxiety & depression issues & doesn't want to be alone for too long & I do love spending time with her so it works. What we're worried about is the GOP screwing up our benefits & us having to move in with my parents.

I am beginning to resolve an issue I have been having recently. I hope to get back to the level I had at the beginning of the year, and move forward. I am nowhere near where I should be at my age, but I would like to hope I can someday achieve that.

Weeeeeell....... I would be happy if my mum wasn't riddled with cancer that can easily come back at any given time.

Also I am in a difficult situation with work. I want to move in with my boyfriend and get married, but he lives 25 miles away from where I live, so it would mean I'd have to find a new job nearer to where he lives, and I am SO anxious of getting a new job in case I'm going to be miserable. I know that's anyone's worry, but as an Aspie I'm more likely to run into problems at work. I am quite lucky where I work now, social-wise. So there's a bit of an awkward situation there, and it's not easy for my boyfriend to move nearer.

Although I highly doubt my childhood dream of becoming a "famous manga artist living in Japan" will ever come to fruition, I'm still very pleased with my life. I'd give it about a 98%. It certainly helps that I'm on a new antidepressant that's been working well for me - It's given me a whole new perspective on life.

I said 25% happy with my life right now. I have a job right now(doesn't have great pay but it's something) Still in my parent's house(thankfully they're kind, and haven't kicked me out) Even if I wanted to live on my own, where would I go? Housing is so expensive right now. Even apartments are 800-900 dollars a month, which is practically my entire paycheck if not more. So I could pay for it, but I wouldn't have anything left to save. Life has not turned out like I thought it would, and I was not expecting much, to begin with, a few years ago it was worse.I was maybe 10% happy with my life I didn't have a job and was becoming depressed. So much so that I considered suicide ( I got help for it, but yeah I was not in a great place) I don't have any desire to have dreams, to be honest. Maybe not be a total embarrassment to my family, but who knows?

While I am fairly happy with a few things, I do think that my life could be better. But at the same time, I also realize how much worse it can be. So, I'm grateful for the things that I have right now, even as my near future is a bit murky.

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I wasn't supposed to survive, so I really didn't have any expectations of life when I was younger, considering I wasn't supposed to have one. Then I had a 50/50 chance later and ended up getting in on the 50% that survive, then within the last few years I got the death speech again but nowdays, looks like I dodged the reaper again.
That's good I guess.
Percentage? I don't know, I've had to reassess that. For a long time I got sucked into "the script," and if you weren't fulfilling that script, your life was a failure. You know - have a perfect childhood, go to scouts or whatever, play on a sports team, hit (or preferably exceed) all your developmental markers, then get through high school with good grades, do something acceptable like go on a debating team and become a prefect, go to university in something acceptable like teaching, top your class in alumni, get married, travel for a while with your spouse until you settle down to work a part time job and have children and a white picket fence.
Basically, be my sister.
But I realized that that life would be hell for me, and I didn't even want it.
So alternative life is in the making. But I'm really too old for this, thanks to autistic developmental issues.
I'm not happy with a lot of it, one particular aspect severely not happy with it as it requires money I don't have, but I think it's definitely getting better than it was when I was younger. Hopefully as I get older, it can get better.

Somewhat, I graduated high school and college, got my drivers licence (manual transmission) and I had my first child at 26. I've worked in IT Support/Network Admin, I've also done a lot of unskilled work in factories.

I live semi-independently, acting as a carer for my mother.

Being autistic I have to plan ahead for everything but it seems to be working well.

I have a dream of writing the life story of Denis Istomin. I don't know who would read it, as he isn't as well known as the "Big Four" tennis players (Federer, Nadal, Djokovic, Murray), but it would be a fun project. I would like to introduce the world to a player who has been a big source of inspiration to me.