It's Almost 2012

In 2011, my New Year's resolution was to lose my virginity. That happened, so I will not be committing suicide, at least not right now. However, much to my surprise, losing my virginity did not magically turn my life around. My life still sucks balls due to my autism, and I still need a cure. Both relationships I had this year failed, and only one of them resulted in sex. I made the humungous mistake of telling one of my girlfriends about my autism, but ironically it was the same one who had sex with me. She seemed fine with it at first, but then used it as an excuse to dump me. It is a mistake I have vowed never to repeat. My long-distance girlfriend did not know of my autism, but then she disappeared to Texas and just stopped calling me. I don't see myself having another relationship anytime soon, because I'm very severely autistic and I will likely never have sex again. I don't have a resolution for 2012 since I lost my virginity in 2011 and that was all I really wanted to accomplish. All I can do is hope that it is at least a better year, which seems pretty hard. Some things are getting better, though. I'm now learning to drive and I plan to start college in February, so we'll see where that leads.

The Difference Between Raffi And Luciano Pavarotti

In 1994, when I was 2 years old, I was watching the TV special "Encore: The Three Tenors" live from Dodger Stadium at my apartment in New Haven. My favorite singer at the time was Raffi, who I'd recently seen in concert and booed, as I referred to previously. While Raffi was a man with dark hair and a full beard, he really did not look much like Luciano Pavarotti. They were of different ethnicities (Raffi is Armenian while Pavarotti was Italian), and Raffi is thin and scrawny while Pavarotti was fat and sweaty. They even performed completely different genres of music: Raffi is a children's folk singer while Pavarotti was an opera tenor. Nonetheless, when the TV special came on, I looked at Luciano Pavarotti and immediately said, "That's Raffi!" The reason for this is that my autism makes me completely face-blind, which means that I have absolutely no idea what people look like. I figured that since both Raffi and Pavarotti had a beard, that they must be the same person. My parents simply explained to me that they were different people, but if they had focused their time when I was that age on curing my autism instead of just boasting about how "smart" I supposedly was, I would've been spared that horrific embarrassment. Once I accepted the truth, I learned that the other Three Tenors were named Jose Carreras and Placido Domingo, and I later learned that their conductor was named Zubin Mehta. Unfortunately, Luciano Pavarotti died in 2007 at the age of 71, thus putting an end to The Three Tenors.