Defying A Tiger

Tigers are brightly colored cats with black stripes. Their color of fur is bright orange, but covering that orange is the dark black stripes. I have bright moments, but sometimes they cloud up with dark moments. Those stripes allow the tiger to blend in with certain surroundings that will make the tiger camouflaged so it can hide. A balance of good moods and bad moods makes it easy to blend into “normal.” If a tiger would be nothing but black, then everyone would know where the “black” tiger would be. Plus, then it would be a panther, and panthers are good at hunting at night. If it were to be all orange, then it would be a cougar. No need to brag, but I’m the best at hide-and-go-seek. Quietly and patiently I hide and make myself comfortable in the forest.

The claws are meant to grab and hold onto their prey. I can grab a hold of something when it comes to goals, and not let go until it’s done.

An average tiger can run fifty miles an hour. I can’t run fifty, but I sure can run fast. Naturally, a person can run fast; my record is twenty miles an hour. Tigers, however, can’t outrun a cheetah since they go an average of seventy miles an hour. I am not the fastest person in the world, but it sure is fun feeling that wind. No one can run without powerful legs.

When I see the eyes, they are focused and calm. Even though the tiger is one of the deadliest animals on the planet, it still has calm eyes. When there’s trouble going on at school like a threat toward me, I don’t shiver. I know they can’t do such things to me. I may look calm, but I have full control of myself and follow my ways of life.

When I see the teeth, I see that they are powerful and bring out fear in others. At times, I’ve had moments where I literally scare people from my own actions. Sometimes, I don’t mean to, but I do a lot of times; I never worry about what I do because I’m me. I don’t see the tigers’ teeth very often unless they are yawning.

The snarl of a tiger makes others stand aside. I never liked it when people wanted me to change, so I say “back off” or anything to make them leave me alone. I hate change in me. Except if it’s on the outside like a haircut or new clothes.

The tiger’s ears are meant for hearing prey coming close by. I like to multitask by listening to one thing, and then go to the other. Whenever I think I might hear something, I silence everyone and hear the sound. Tigers would hear another animal whether or not it was a good animal. I listen to people whether they are good people to be with or not.

Same thing with the nose; if a tiger smells something nice, he eats it. If not, he leaves it alone. If people have personalities that stink, I walk away.

When I looked at the lifespan of a tiger, I found out that they live about fifteen years. When my lifespan as a child ended at age fifteen, I felt dead inside. My teenage acquaintances can’t be as active as they were when they were little kids. I am always ready for almost anything because I hate boredom and am always active except for bedtime. I act my age; it’s just that people my age are not as active as they were a long time ago. I still don’t understand that, but anyone can be as active as a child the way I see it. Any animal and any human can live longer than what their average is. At age fifteen, it seemed like my childhood was dying. I wish I could be a child again with my acquaintances as if I were back in the ’90s. My childhood I will keep forever, no matter how many people grow out of it.

Every animal has its senses. Most even have tails. Sometimes, we can all relate to our favorite animals. Go on, pick an animal that you like, and explain why you chose it.

Energy Readings

Some people who have autism have high energy, some people who have autism have low energy. With me, I’m proud to say that I had amazing energy when I was a kid. I was immature back then by using that energy in the wrong time like during class time. I would do recess but still have a lot of energy.

Now a days, I would be calm and relaxed. I use my amazing energy when doing track or riding my bike or any other kind of sport. It took a while to calm down when I was little so what I did was stop, close my eyes, take a deep breath, and then smile. Then, when I opened my eyes, I did a blowing sound. It’s that blowing sound people make when blowing dandelion seeds. I felt calm and ready to take on the day. To me, it’s a way to save my energy for something big like sports or parkour. Not sure if it counts as a sport. Hmm… Oh well.

When I see kids at high school that don’t have as much energy as me, I always wondered why they don’t have a lot of energy. I’ve always thought that teenagers and kids would have tons of energy to do anything in the world that would affect people positively. Unfortunately there is not a lot of energy coming from others around me. Makes me think that my energy is different from the world allowing me to do a lot of stuff. I never understand teenagers even though I am one, because they would tell stories about their parties and all that crazy stuff. I do a lot of crazy cool stuff, but not with those school mates. So what I would do during lunch in high school is walk outside almost all the time. Even when it’s raining. I keep walking.

The way I see it is that rain is the same thing as taking a shower, getting all wet, but yet cold like snow almost. People go outside when there’s snow, people go outside when there’s sun. With me, it doesn’t really matter too much. Is that the same for you? They say that when it rains, it gets depressing, but with me, I smile up in the rain.

When walking in the rain, and when it’s colder, it gives me more endurance to do sports. Of course, I always wear warm clothing, but it’s the walking that counts.

It’s never too late to let out that energy on anything. Even when it means punching the punching bag. Awesome way to let out that kind of energy when feeling angry, or sad. As the years go on, I learned how to manage the energy readings on me, and become more independent.

Kids, it’s super cool to let out the energy on anything. But as you grow up, there are limits. That never means that you will lose that energy, because when it comes to having fun, that energy would be released and that’s how the fun starts.

Why Avoid Eye Contact?

Kids who have autism avoid eye contact a lot of times, and I was one of those kids who avoided eye contact with a lot of people.

There are many reasons why kids who have autism would avoid eye contact with other people. Here is a small list on why I think the reason is.

  • Feeling guilty about almost everything they did
  • Feeling like everything the person says to them is bad
  • Have to hide their looks because of low confidence in appearance.
  • Extremely shy
  • Don’t like to be talked to because of interuption
  • Afraid to kiss the person talking

That’s right. The reason why I said “Afraid to kiss the person talking” is because to be honest with you, I had that feeling. Embarrassing I know, but if I was even more honest with you, I made great eye contact on a girl that I liked when I was in 2nd grade. I don’t stare, because I need time to blink.

Whenever I get asked what’s wrong because of me looking away at the person talking, I was always afraid to respond because at the time I either don’t know the answer or to be honest with #6 on the list. Besides how ridiculous and embarrassing would that be if I told that kind of truth? That’s why it’s good to finally share it in this cool blog of mine (Built by my Dad).

So when you see someone who has autism having trouble looking at people, it’s never too late to ask why. Kids, respond to the question, said by yours truly Tyler McNamer. I have autism, and it takes time to make full eye contact to people when talking. It’s good to start young.

Now a days when I see that same girl, I look away because of embarrassment. It’s a normal trait people have when seeing someone beautiful. It takes an even longer time to make great eye contact to those kind of people.

The Rainbow Seed

In a faraway farm, there lived a little boy named Ted. Friends called him Teddy for his nickname. He lived in an old broken home with his mom, Susie, in the middle of nowhere. They couldn’t see any flowers surrounding them—nothing but dry land and a roadway to the store.

Then one day, Teddy decided to walk around the mountains with his friends when he met an old man. “Hello, young boy!” said the man. “I am Old Man Harry. I want to do something good for you and your mom.” Then Harry brought forth a beautiful brightly colored seed that changed color over time. “What is it?” asked the boy. “It’s a Rainbow Seed. I want you to plant it,” replied the jolly old man. The boy Teddy had never planted a seed before, so Harry took him down from the mountains and showed him how to plant a seed. “You see, young fellow, you place the seed in the ground; you water it once in awhile, make sure the sun shines down on the seed, and let it grow over time.” So Old Man Harry gave Ted the rainbow seed and left with a warning, saying, “Remember, boy; this seed is gifted; you will be up for a big surprise,” and off he went into the distance.

Teddy rushed home to tell his mom about what had happened and she got excited about the seed. They both went outside right at the back side of the house and planted the colorful seed.

Then all of a sudden, the seed grew a huge rainbow and stretched far over the fields. It was a hot and sunny day, so the sun melted the rainbow slowly. With the rainbow melting, the droplets from the rainbow turned into little seeds and went straight to the ground. With that, the seeds quickly turned into rainbow flowers. They had different colors of flowers everywhere all over the fields.

Teddy and his mom, Susie, were so happy to see all that happening to their field, and they began to smell the scent of the flowers all over. People all over got to see the flowers, and everything was just amazing for the boy and his mom, all thanks to a little seed that needed to be planted.

The End

2003 Tyler McNamer