the moment i've been waiting for ages has come: the day where i get to present my tübitak project, which if u dont know, tübitak is basically a science fair held every year in turkey, and it has so many other categories other than science. and mine just so happened to fall under the "languages and literature" category, under the subcategory "arts" and let me tell you, yesterday and today went so good!
i couldnt stop stimming out of excitement and also, i was presenting a project for the first time and i felt good cuz i had a friend with me, who was also involved in my animation project. we both presented our project and i just felt so good cuz everyone praised me and the response to my project was overwhelmingly positive and uh, i didnt know what to do, im still processing all the praise i got, especially since im not used to being praised haha
and i remember feeling happy because my english teacher told the audience this: "before i met alara, i'll admit, i didn't know much about autism in general and i remember meeting her when she was in 9th grade and i spent all this time with her and i got to know her better,and because i spent a lot of time with her, especially for the last 2 years, i got to know a lot more and i hope this animation will also enlighten you like how it did enlighten me"
i felt so fucking happy hearing that, especially since most teacher in turkey don't even bother learning about autism, which causes discrimination and in most cases, trauma.
so, she did try and learnt more. fucking. happy.
:))))
so yeah, i just hope i taught about 2 things:
autistic girls exsist
if given the chance, autistic people can fucking thrive and maybe have a whole ass career out of their special interests (an example im giving)
so yeah! overall, im happy my animation got the response it did
-alara :)
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