My Life Inspiring Journal: Revised Edition

By Jason Jackson

 

 

 

Travel through this author's journey with feelings, thoughts, and desires as a Autistic man living with Bipolar.  Learn how he interacts with characters in everyday life.  This book is a collage of episodes modeled, and based on the author's true experiences. 

Jason Jackson has managed in the few pages of this "journal" to convey both the challenges and insights of someone with autism. The need for validation, love and acceptance are the hidden drivers that direct his perceptions of the world. Told in a way that mirrors the discontinuities of his own mind and his thinking process, Jason is able to inform the readers that stories of life abound and intersect as much as they interact. There is no need to "pity" the person with autism; more important is the ability to see it as a perceptual way of dealing with daily life. In this journal, Jason has accomplished this.

 

Harriette H, friend and former basketball coach/Sunday School teacher

 

• Language: English
• Publisher: Jason
• Release date: Aug 31, 2022
• ISBN: 9798215949115

Book preview

Dedication

This journal book is dedicated to my Dad James Henry Jackson and my mother Caroline Ann Jackson. Jason Jackson has been a good friend and overcame some difficult moments in life. I’m proud to know him and be his friend – John. W. He’s a natural born writer – Daniel G.

To Daniel Akpojiyovwi of DanielBookDesign (danielbookdesign.com), my book designer and the spark of this book. His enthusiasm and expertise helped to shape my original writeup into a relevant book that’s been waiting twelve years to become a published reality.

Acknowledgments

I’d like to thank all the support staff I worked with: Candace, Renika, Carol, Elizabeth and Sharon in the office.

I’d also like to thank the artists at Creative Growth who continued to help me grow: Tara, Sara, Sarah in ceramics, Steve, Josie, and all the other teachers and staff who have been listening to me over the years.

I would also like to thank all of the family in the Jackson clan and friends of my dad and mom, including those who have passed on from illnesses and natural causes.

I’d like to thank Harriette Heibel for her contribution of the blurb. I’d also like to thank Robin Green for her support and my two aunts – Lynne and Elaine.

Thank you very much.

Preface

Maybe the veterans can deal with more than others are willing to put up with. I get very sensitized and feel rippled like a seismograph when I’m trying to interpret others’ minds, intentions, thoughts, and perceptions. I have no filter in my processing mind, and I am very sensitive to the feeling part of my brain. Also, the deciding and opinion side of my brain has a take it or leave it mentality where people’s input is concerned for validation of my own person. I think writing rehashes my experience so I can process it better and let it go. And then I can start with something new and learn in a more cumulative way where I’m building on what was before that perseveration. This is something I have been told is a skipping or spinning process that is called perseveration. A psychologist I met said it’s like a record skipping over and over in the same place. In other words, some say the definition of insanity is doing the same thing and expecting different results. Seeing it for what it is and not making more of it than I have to helps me move on.

December 26TH, 2014

The day passed, and people stopped to get their coffee and tea, and it was strangely peaceful. There was no hustle and bustle of city life, and people were strewn all around like dirty socks.

I must appear to need a lot of validation from others to function. It seems like it, but I’m more looking for input from others so I can mimic what others might do in my situation.

Do You Have Goals or Are You Just Working?

Say yes to requests to receive assistance.

Do so with a smile on your face.

Use a great tone of voice to greet people as purchasers of services.

If making a friend is not possible, leave a good first impression.

Ask for help from someone at the front counter if you feel you cannot address someone’s request adequately.

Definable Goals

Talk to 100 people.

Promote play of the cranes.

Reset the plushes after making eye contact, smiling, and saying I’d be glad to assist you.

Don’t try to read body language, gestures, or tone of voice. Use rehearsed answers to communicate in place of eye contact or tone of voice when necessary.

Realize everyone has individual needs and ask questions to discern or process their personal requests.

Don’t try to be a person that figures everything out. Take some time to mull over what someone says and whether it is realistic or someone’s perception of their need.

What the Job Coach Can Help You With.

Recognize when I’m being unreasonable to expect some accommodation.

Be motivated to be more communicative toward people who come to spend money and operate the games.

Use problem-solving skills to arrive at new solutions to recurring problems of performance or perception of performance and if it is possible to improve on evaluated performance. If not, find other motivation to do the task with a positive attitude and be happy with the resulting response.

Talk To the Manager of Amusement

He listened to my concerns.

I didn’t talk over him.

I wasn’t concerned with pay increase.

I was introduced to the job coach on Saturday, the 23rd of December.

What Did Bob and I Talk About?

Relationship between employee and corporate response to requests of players of cranes

Difficulty making quick friends.

Not waiting a long time with each