"Never forget the battles you have fought and won"

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It's actually pretty easy to make it in NYC if you just stay out of the way of people. Don't look for trouble. The anonymity is great in NYC! Uncle Sam's Army----no anonymity. You had to use your survival skills. I don't know if I would have made it in the Army, to be honest.

Battles I have won:

I live in the U.S., born in Las Vegas. Needless to say, the town I lived in was not exactly very forgiving for people with Aspies/ASD and you had to be a serious extrovert in order to thrive there. It also didn't help I had a family that hated my guts and constantly treated me like dirt. After several years of living on my own and being diagnosed with another physical illness (Crohn's) that seemed to trigger the most when I was stressed out or anxious, I decided that the only way I could give myself a chance of avoiding surgery for my Crohn's was to lower my stress, and to do that I had to move. So I did to Atlanta. Wasn't missing much back at my birthplace (no friends, non-supportive family, too many people hate me back there).

However, Atlanta has only been marginally better for me. I'm not overly depressed, or constantly put in a string of compromising situations socially, but it still happens semi-regularly. Not to mention I'm still having to fend on my own and it's still very hard to keep a job for me despite my degrees and hard to keep friends no matter what I do.