Dogs are fittingly referred to as being “Man’s Best Friend” and I’ve lived with at least one dog throughout my lifetime. Overall, they’re incredibly loyal and would do anything to protect their human owners. Indeed members of the dog family...
I was given a comforting (as well as exciting) idea. There was a time when I had to travel over to California, to have an MRI done by the lab researching one of the conditions that I have. My mother did of course have to come along with me, and we spent just over a week there. In addition to having my MRI that week, I also got to meet and talk to the famous robot Asimo. Asimo certainly was extremely technologically advanced for his time. He amazed crowds with these qualities; though I discovered that his primary purpose was to assist people with disabilities as well. That is when I received the idea of eventually having a robot of my own to both help me and keep me company.
Recently a documentary film about me and my family (named Because We Have Each Other) has been released to the world, and in April/May of 2023 we travelled to Toronto for our screening at the HotDocs International Film Festival. As we live in Brisbane this was my longest journey since the “pre-pandemic days”. In fact the last time I visited a destination that far away was when we travelled to Florida in 2011. We’ve visited California countless times, yet the North American east coast is another six or seven hours of flying from there.
Personality quizzes are often perceived as being a popular activity for teenagers and not for people like myself who are older. A fair few even regard such activities as damaging to one’s psychological health.
Ever since Rebecca was a child she has enjoyed spending a lot of time by herself. Indeed it took quite some years for her to see and understand that interacting and connecting with other people is equally beneficial.
In truth I find it very difficult to understand and interpret feelings and situations that I don’t see and feel for myself. It makes things more difficult given that I’m also unable to interpret facial expressions, body language and the countless number and layers of emotions.
