First thing that comes to mind when you think of the 2000s

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Y2K not happening.

My sleep problems worsening. I had thought at first it was just anxiety about Y2K

My increasing hatred of the human race

My "outbursts" getting more frequent and severe

Getting sick more often with infections

Having to go to the hospital because of a bad throat infection alone because the staff didn't give a crap.

The staff telling my mother how horrible I've been behaving, which shocks my mom.

Getting kicked out of the home.

Being brought to the hospital and left there alone a week before Christmas.

Being diagnosed with Asperger's after the New Year.

Being forced to live in a place for people with severe mental disabilities for a week until my parents finally took me in to stay with them.

Getting bad side effects from whatever new drugs I was put on, such as rashes and fevers.

Being moved into another home, thinking things will be better because of my new diagnosis and the staff being educated about it. As usual, I was wrong.


The other male residents at the home going out getting drunk, being loud and playing heavy metal blasting through my bedroom walls when I tried unsuccessfully to sleep, and the staff using their mental illness as an excuse for their behavior while everything I said or did was just wrong.

Having panic attacks in my sleep that would wake me up feeling like I was having a heart attack.

Being put back in the hospital several more times.

Finally getting out of that place and moving into my new apartment for the first time.

The "lady" at Community Services telling my mother and me it was perfectly fine and normal to sleep on the floor in my new apartment instead of getting a bed because that's what *she* had to do in college.

Not being able to sleep yet again, even with a new bed, and the new neighbors blasting music on a CD that skips constantly during the night.

9/11

Trying to go out and do some shopping only to lose my wallet.

Meeting the drunk, overgrown teenager who played his music all night. He tells me a sob story about breaking up with his girlfriend and refuses to listen to my complaints. The landlady refuses to do anything. And when I go back into my apartment the drunk and his sister start screaming, cursing, and harassing me through my windows. The police do nothing. My parent are too far away to help. I suffer a meltdown and end up having to go back to the hospital. As I leave the drunk and his sister go "nya na nya nya NYAH!" Needless to say, I never went back there again.

After some hellish anxiety-ridden time in the hospital, my parents reluctantly allow me to move back in with them until I can find a new place to live. But they are worried for their own safety and think I'm a danger to others. All my medication was taken away with no explanation while at the hospital, and now I'm having terrible withdrawal. I go for several days with no sleep and during the day I place all around my parents house so much I get cramps, but can't sit still. I can't eat or focus on anything. Finally I get my meds back and gradually start to feel as close as I come to "normal". Which gives me plenty of time to be full of anxiety and dread because of 9/11.

By around Christmas I'm doing pretty well living in my parent's "basement apartment". I've been cooking my own meals, doing my own chores, and basically living almost as if I were on my own.

Found a new apartment on Mother's Day. Move in by summer.

This all happened in about two years at the start of the 21st century.

Windows XP

My father passing the day after I turned 12 in 2002.

Because many of my middle school classmate saw his passing as a reason to bully me, I was compelled to keep his passing a secret until my senior year of high school.

Avian Flu

Swine Flu

Being called a sheep and a moron for wanting to get vaccinated against the flu

Hurricane Katrina

Hurricane Juan (in Halifax)

G.W. Bush's re-election

Terrorists

War on Terror

The US Great Recession

Mass shootings in the US every 5 minutes

Asperger's being blamed for every mass shooting.

Climate change

Global warming

People being in denial about climate change and global warming trolling and insulting people who aren't

Cyberbullying

Everything

About

The 21st

Century

SUCKS

A bunch of stuff including:

The Nintendo GameCube

Animal Crossing

Some Animes (Inuyasha mostly )

9/11

Three Days Grace, for some reason, along with other Post-Grunge groups .-.

Disturbed's first album (I don't listen to them anymore but I digress xD)

Kelly Clarkson

"Is this chicken or is this fish" - Jessica Simpson -_-

the music

Plug N Play games

Falling in love with autistic characters, (Sid from Flushed Away and Sgt. Schultz).

The 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver

Getting my dog, Chico in 2003

Discovering WP in 2004

Getting diagnosed with Aspergers.

Restarting my long distance running.

Discovering how much I enjoy writing.

A lot of pointless internet dating that i could have spent playing games instead.

Nintendo GameCube

My last cat, C.C., passed away yesterday.

digital media really coming into its own. high-speed internet becoming more common.