High School Reunion (Day 12 of 365)

Current mood: Fine.
Currently hyped about: SPLATOON 2 AHHHHH

I'm off work today (and tomorrow, that is, if they don't call me in!), so I'm more than welcome to take the day off as these past three days were filled with hell from work. So, I got up at 10 am as usual, made breakfast for myself and for the boyfriend, and we both relaxed for the day. However, Roy then asked me if I had plans for the day. I said that tomorrow I wanted to do some stuff on my own (i.e.: girl stuff). Roy mentioned that a friend from high school invited him to play Magic the Gathering at his place in Downtown Houston later on. I told him he could go and I'll stay and [try] to relax, but he insisted that I should go, primarily because he wants me to interact with more people other than himself and the people I work with.

So we ate dinner first, and we headed to Houston after 6 pm. The address his friend gave us…wasn't really a house. It was a high rise building that was similar to a hospital. And the friend Roy was messaging him told him to enter the hospital-like building. It turned out that was the building. I was beginning to feel a bit confused of the whole thing, and there wasn't any signs that described what exactly the building was. So, as we entered inside, there was a receptionist desk on your right, and there was a café to your left. Two hallways in both directions that lead you to rooms. 'Dormitory rooms?' I thought.

It turned out that he was living in a building where it houses adults who are mentally challenged, as well as who have developmental disabilities. Everything was starting to make sense now. Every individual that was in the building have some sort of a mental disability, including Roy's high school friend.

A little backstory, Roy is on the autism spectrum, as well as he suffers from OCD. It's become hard for me to adapt at first, but I've learned to be a bit more patient (although these days with all the 390239742039 arguments we've had, I feel like I'm the one that should be working more on it). He graduated from a special high school where they specialize students who are mentally challenged. He even graduated high school a year after I did. So, after learning that most of Roy's high school classmates were challenged, I was up for a challenge myself.

Three of his friends were there, and it felt like a high school reunion for him. I was honored to accompany him while he shows off his giant Magic the Gathering deck with the guys. Roy and I have played Magic once, and during that game I was very close to beating him for the first time. I even helped him organize his deck. However, we didn't have time to play, as we were also watching anime at the same time as well. One anime that peaked my interest, and I'm gonna plan to watch more, is The Devil's a Part Timer.

Meeting them was an honor. His friends were surprised that Roy ended up getting a girlfriend, one is even jealous. They were all pretty cool, even one of them is studying IT just like me. We both even chatted about computers and technology, to where Roy and the other guys didn't know what we were talking about. xD

To be quite honest, that visit to this…building…whatever, made me think differently. You see so many individuals with different kind of disability, whether mentally or physically. They all need love, and they all need care. Roy requires a lot more love not only from myself but from his family too, in which lately they've been giving him a tough time. I think after today, my "patience" needs to get worked on, like right now. I gotta stop being little miss bitchy and start being a better girlfriend who is more understanding and kind. Old habits like these needs to die tonight.