Hi Everyone,
I, Michael Lettman, would like to share my work on Social Relationships.
This Social Relationships' post is about Friendship. Sometimes Michael Lettman wonders if he ever had any friends especially during his school years.
During my school years, I've met good people like classmates, teachers, & others as well. They were all people that I've known from my past. Every time I graduate, I had to say goodbye to my schools along with the people that I've known from those schools. Afterwards I never saw them again, which is something that has happen in all of the schools that I've graduated from. So it is because of what happens after my graduations that I hardly accepted anyone that I've known from my school years as my friends. Every time that I've finished up with my schools, I hardly seen anyone from my past (who believed that I'm their friend) but I did managed to have seen a few teachers or staff from my old schools (who still remembered me) & it was nice to see them again. So I believe that I don't have any close friends even though some people from my school years might have accepted me as a friend. I don't think I was ever a friend, since I'll never see them again.
The Story of PEM
Apparently people from a drama class therapy that I've attended have REALLY accepted me as their friend including some from my program who were in that class & I was very impressed about it. So I shall say that maybe there are people out there who wouldn't mind being my friends after all & of course, the exact same thing goes with the autistic community as well. Unfortunately ever since I've finished attending that Drama Class Therapy, I haven't seen most of them in a while. So that made me wonder if everyone said they were my friends then how come I won't ever see them again just like in the school years of my past. So I hope we all learn about the importance of friendship because if they are those who will accept you as their friend & they are those that you've always seen almost 24/7 then we'll make sure it shall continue on as a very good friendship for life.
What kind of friends would Michael Lettman like to have?
1. Someone who's very considerate to my feelings
2. Someone who might enjoy hanging out with me
3. Someone who's very generous & has great kindness
4. Someone who's NOT Spoiled, Rotten, or very Toxic
5. Someone who might have similar interests that I have
6. Someone who might enjoy having long pleasant conversations with me
7. Someone who might accept me for who I am (which is a High-Functioning Autistic)
From my Perspective
I believe that a true friend should be someone you knew for a long time, someone you enjoy hanging out with, someone you can count on, someone you enjoy having nice conversations with, & a very important reason for friendship: someone you know you can trust. Since almost anyone in our world cannot ever be trusted, it can be very difficult to find a good friend in this world of ours but I'm sure that we can all find a true friend that we'll always be best friends with for a long time like Best Friends Forever.
I would like to say to everyone that people with autism would like to have friends since they might be lonely. Maybe doing activities with autistic people could be lots of fun which will make everyone happy. Try your best to make some new good friends even by being yourself. Some autistic people are friends with each other & friends with non-autistic people which is very good but I'm hoping that even if there might be problems like fighting, mistrusting, upsetting, & not getting along well, please try your best to find ways that you all can have an excellent friendship. Then you all will have lots of great happiness & kindness with your good friends.
This is the 6th video of my project which will explain a bit about Friendship to you, Please Enjoy!
My Project's Interviews
A few people who I've interviewed have said they're friends with me which was very nice of them so I still need to learn how I might have had a few friends after all, friends who truly understands what I'm trying to achieve with my project.
Interviewing Alem: Someone named Alem (who I've met in my AHRC Community Program) said she's friends with me which was very kind of her & she became the first individual within the disability community that I've interviewed within my project, Please Enjoy!
Interviewing Autumn: Someone named Autumn who was my classmate back when we worked at the Northside Center for Child Development, said she's friends with me when I thought she was just my classmate in our class at the Childcare Center. I was impressed when we saw each other again in AHRC & she said that we were friends so I need to understand it. She was very kind to let me interview her because she understands what my project is for, Please Enjoy!
The College Life of Michael Lettman
Some of my classmates within AHRC's Melissa Riggio Higher Education Program (that I'm currently attending) say that they're my friends but I was reluctant about it. During My 2nd Year: Winter Semester, Frank Laskowitz has been trying to show that I do have friends in my college program and I'm slowly trying to see that in some of my classmates. Frank even determined to start a new friendship for me and a classmate named Steven Lakhter and it's going okay despite me still being uncertain with the friendship feeling but I'll continue learning more about friendship within my college program.
A Friendship Lesson Learned: Pondering about how others can still be friends even if they're far away or never see each other again in-person makes me think about how others say that they're friends with me then I end up not see them again. Since I'd like to have friends, I ended up learning a lesson about friendship which is described in this video, Please Enjoy!