한달。一个月

Note: This post was written more than a month ago, but I had problems publishing it. So here it is now. hehehe...



今天是我认识 Ann 满一个月！很开心能较到这位朋友。

Every new journey will always be guided by someone and I believe the person who really helped me get to know more people and to socialise within the B2uties circle is definitely Ann. :)

I used I miss out on a lot of little things. Not posting them online because I was too lazy... As I grow older, I realised that those were the little things that mattered to me and I chose to not write them down. So now, I will not repeat the same mistake anymore. I'll write down whatever I feel like writing...

And oh! Tomorrow is Dujunie's 24th birthday (Korean age)! Here's to hoping that every path he takes will be nothing but the best and that he will soar to greater heights in the coming years!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY YOON-GOON!

People Who Discriminate Know Not How To Love

I came across a note I wrote two years ago on an FB page I once had. It's about my younger brother, who has Aspergers Syndrome.

I think sharing it here with people would be good, since not many people actually know of this syndrome.

Recently, my little brother was terminated from his internship because his bosses think he is not good enough.

Yes. My family and I all know that my brother is not really able to live up to their expectations and their requirements.
We also know that my brother has a very short attention span, loves to talk to himself and in layman's term, brag.

But we also know that if he had a choice to choose who he wants to become, he would not have chosen to be a kid with Asperger Syndrome.

My brother has a mild form of autism, meaning he can function better than most autistic kids, but still with considerable amount of learning problems. He is a slow learner and requires a lot of patience from the people around him. Teaching him to do something the proper way may very well require months, sometimes even years of constant and continuous reminding and teaching.

Since young, he has been shunned and alienated, by friends and peers, sometimes even by extended family members. Honestly, we don't even know who his friends are. They are just like strangers in his life.

He doesn't have a best friend. Never in his entire 19 years of life, have we seen a "friend" visited him. Neither has anyone calledl and asked him to hang out before. He doesn't get to have birthday parties because nobody wants to attend. Nobody ever once called him just to talk about daily stuffs, girls and gossips.
Every normal teen who has no friends would probably have succumbed to peer pressure and anxiety on why they are not accepted by their peers...

But my brother, he bears no grudges against these people who have "ill-treated" him, now or in the past. He never questioned why people avoid him. He never asked why friends have never visited nor asked him out. He never once asked for anything more than what he already has in life, even though it is not much compared to what his schoolmates and peers have. To him, the world is beautiful and everyone is good.

I just wish sometimes people will be able to look at the world through his eyes and see how beautiful his heart is. How innocent and how pure and sincere this boy is to everyone. If there's someone I know who wouldn't lie about his feelings, it has to be my brother.

It doesn't matter if society looks at him in a different light. Because like everyone else in my family, I'd be more than willing to have someone like him as my little brother for a million lifetimes to come... 

Because through him, I learnt how to love, and to forgive and forget.

Note: My brother is 21 this year, and still, he gets shunned and discriminated from time to time. But he's still the gem that he has always been.