A Month of Thankfulness: Day Four - My Friend K.

I'll get to my friends in general later in the month, but my friend K* is someone who I feel a special type of thankful for.  My friend K is both autistic and epileptic (my NaNoWriMo-fried brain tried to turn that into eclectic which isn't necessarily wrong but certainly irrelevant) and 100% awesome.

Why I am Thankful:

• She sometimes makes me uncomfortable, in that way that means my brain hasn't finished processing yet
• She has helped me to understand the concept of privilege and what that means in relation to my life
• She sometimes makes me uncomfortable, in that way that means I failed the privilege check
• My vocabulary has grown to include words that I never before had a concept for
• She has widened my awareness of the world and the many things I take for granted
• She inspires me to become better educated about the challenges of the people around me
• She inspires me to be a better friend
• She inspires me by knowing who she is and not changing despite strong pressure to be someone or something else
• I have learned new and awesome signs as well as exploring a new category of insults for the ignorant and ill-behaved
• She inspires me to be a better person and (perhaps much to her dismay) a better Christian

There are probably still more reasons that I am thankful to be a friend of K's but these are good ones and important ones.  The most important thing is that I am thankful.

*Name withheld, at least temporarily