Blogception: Blogging about Blogging

As of August 26th, I officially started my blog. For ease of updating, I used the same blogging website that we used for this class, although I did choose a slightly different background and theme. I chose the name "The Okay-ish OT" as a pun off the TV show "The Good Doctor," out of a desire to find humor in the unfortunately overused stereotype that all autistic people must be geniuses. Of course, I hope to be more than okay-ish in my career someday, but I felt like the alliteration fit, so I kept it. There were a few bumps in the road at first; I couldn't figure out how to change the font colors, or how to make an author profile, but with the use of the help button, I was quickly on my way to a functioning blog. I started with an "About the Author" page, just a quick intro with my goals for the blog, what my posts would look like, and what my experiences were with the topics I would be discussing. Next, I had to decide on my first discussion topic, ...

When I was younger, I used to love going to bookstores and finding really fancy notebooks. I would convince my parents to buy them with the intention of writing a journal, writing a story, or filling it with something that I cared about. Of course, after a day or two, I'd run out of ideas, and I'd have a mostly-empty but very fancy notebook sitting on a shelf in my room. Now I have a small container full of these notebooks hiding in a box in my room, most still empty. More recently, I've been thinking about writing a blog, especially after being diagnosed as autistic and doing a lot of learning and thinking about that topic. So, when we were told to choose a hobby or an occupation for my first OT class, writing was one of my first thoughts. A blog would be a place to put all those thoughts and ideas, and it would give me somewhere to organize all the essays on disability studies that I got away with submitting during my undergrad.  This blog will be cataloguing these effort...