Coping and being cared for

The present corona virus pandemic is very worrying but for boys that advice by Mr. Rodgers is really the thing that matters now as it did then.

Men and indeed women are not waiting around while talking up the crisis but instead are doing what is responsible and lending a hand to help, showing real leadership and good morals not ransacking food stores creating more problems for everyone at such a stressful time.

Other things that tie into included going for a long walk to get away from the relentless coverage in the media dressed in grey shorts and socks (covered elsewhere by my walking post) where men spoke with me checking I was okay.

It felt lovely to be cared for by adults of my own gender, man to adult boy who just engaged with me more like their own sons reflecting masculine care for each other.

Getting with the program

After a busy, somewhat mithering week where the Corona virus is the major topic as a person who is more potentially vulnerable being in a more 'at risk' group which is impacting on some of the things I follow such as footie with matches being played either without crowds to reduce cross -infection or even postponed and personally I need to be a bit careful about the areas I go out in, returning to one of the main narratives of this blog also seems appropriate.

A good start point in all this is to say what would be the response for adult in law but in other respects boy be to such troubling situations?

Let's start by recognizing I coped learning to use my abilities to handle the challenges of being physically and developmentally disabled to make a life for myself as much as I may need supervision and support from time to time.

I had a poor track record of childhood illnesses requiring time away from school and time often in bed but I kept my own spirits up learning to manage my vulnerabilities to minimize becoming ill.

Of late I adapted a more outdoor lifestyle with a lot of fresh air and exercise to promote more vigour and resilience which was hard for me but has helped in having the lowest instances of colds and aches.

It seems to me that more of that keeping away from major population centres will help keep the risk of infection down while ensuring I don't give in to mental contamination, keeping my spirit up and full throttle.

When I may be unable to go where I'd like I need to take it as a boy and do things I can instead such as read and make things refusing to allow this current emergency define me and show some spirit instead.

Reintergration

Things across the week were  not quite as anticipated so arrangements around my birthday were different as any social sides such as meeting with my folks would of needed to had been left to the weekend.

One thing that has been different stems from the changes around my presentation at a number of sites that go back to the period I was rather messed up which which I talked about on here when I decided to stand up tall, tear down publicly that mess and make openly male profile.

Lesser people would of just wiped accounts and started all over again.

Anyway like a few sites, the boards have enabled a birthday feature and in a thread I regularly post in, I mentioned my birthday.
I just thought the odd person I might of passed a brief greeting but I was very wrong.

Appreciation was shown for the posts I had made including those that knew me from that muddled up past.

Men spoke in favour of what I had contributed,overtly gendering me, clearly accepting me as nothing less than male and a bloke like them.

I have come out, been assessed for the measure of being a bloke and accepted.

In addition, I made an account at a site devoted to an author of children's books that started from day one as male, politely showed my more Alb side without using that phrase and wrote an introduction.
They have accepted me too as just that - a male with no exceptions. 

This has been a momentous day for me. Social reintegration.

Surviving adulting edition.

By the time you've seen this I've been out for most of the day in the Court looking more like an older schoolboy in longs - I wouldn't push classic ASB presentation on His Honourable Judge even if chunks do get accepted.

That's cos I'm there to do a groan up extremely important role in Adult Society even though I'm lousy at faking being a grown cos I'm not and you know it.

Thus while I absolutely can't talk about what I've done today, the one thing that has been happening is as soon as I've got in I've changed the longs for shorts  as I've got my turn over top school socks and that on anyway to mentally switch off for a few hours before bed and another day in Court.

Then add a spot playing with my toys.

It's the only way an adult but child me can cope with this but it'll be all over with by next Friday god willing.