Blogging – a little sum up

I started blogging on 14th of July this year.. My blog doesn’t seem to be listed in Google for now but this can apparently take a few months. I don’t do anything to promote it in any way. I write about such personal stuff at times that any attempts at self promotion just don’t feel right.

I have a couple of viewers every day, a few more on some days and less on others but not many overall. Still, I’d say it’s more than I expected considering I’m not promoting my blog and I’m not listed in Google.

I post on most days, on some days I post more than once. At one time, I think, I wrote 10 blog posts in one day! That was when I was in Poland though, when I was going through all this drama with my mum and brother and at the same time tried writing about things from the past as it was bringing me massive relief.

Overall I find blogging extremely satisfying. It feels like I finally have been given a voice and possibly I am even more confident to speak up when actually talking to people, although it’s too early to confirm that for sure. Also, confidence is probably not the right word, which I already stated here before: I do feel confident when speaking with someone, it’s just that the right words don’t appear in my head for me to say them and this as a result is being labeled as low confidence. Possibly writing about my experiences is an exercise for my brain that allows me to find the right words also later on, when I talk to someone face to face or on the phone.

Another of my achievements is revealing Home Group as a real company. They don’t seem too bothered that I blog about them though, which is possibly a good thing.

Do I want to be discovered? Well, I am actually happy where I am as blogging itself is very rewarding and but I guess at some point I may want some recognition if only because it would mean that what I write about has value.

I am worried from time to time that there will be nothing new happening in my life that I could use to describe how I think, but then if that’s actually possible? Things happen all the time and I’m autistic 24/7, I should get plenty of ideas for more posts.

The other thing I’m also worried about is that someone from work (when I start working) will find my blog and finds out about things that I don’t normally talk about. It is my choice not to hide my identity on the blog, if I blog anonymously it would feel like blogging is just another experience where I’m not allowed to be myself. But I am aware that some people can get funny with me when they find out about my psychotic episodes. Oh well… I’ll deal with it when it happens. I don’t know how and hopefully it will not be yet another situation where I thought that I’d cope but I didn’t. But as I said for now I’m a very happy blogger overall.

3 responses to “Blogging – a little sum up”

  1. Well done with the 250 posts!

    If you search „site:https://autisticandme.com” on Google, you’ll see that it has indexed a few of your posts. I found it took quite a while before my site started showing up in the top few pages of search results.

    I was initially semi-anonymous when I started my blog, but then I decided to heck with it, if other people find it and don’t like what I say, that’s their problem, not mine.

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    1. Thank you 🙂 I didn’t know I’m already indexed. I checked Autistic and me and there was nothing. I doubt I can be found under ‘autistic bloggers’ but maybe with time. Especially if I write as much as I do now 😛

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      1. I’m sure it will happen with time.

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