Hello, fellow globe inhabitants ! (I know . . . I’m really weird sometimes)
I hope you are all well.
I am writing because I’m just so excited to be learning a skillset on LinkedIn Learning that will enable me to help people via web and maybe app design ! My education in UX Design with Kenzie and this are to serve the same purpose, make it easier for human beings to communicate their ideas, feelings and wants. I’m going into web development, focusing my studies ( because I don’t really need many pre-requisites, except HTML and CSS) on accessibility. My goal is to focus my career on developing ways to accommodate the internet to users with disabilities, be it vision, hearing, learning, mental or physical disabilities.
I think I’m mostly passionate about this because of the fact that I, myself, have a learning disability. That disability has been the direct cause of me getting fired from , or simply walking out on several jobs. People don’t understand what the disabled are going through, and no matter how compassionate they are, they never could.
My disability is invisible, but not life altering. I struggle socially and emotionally more than anything because of my disability. I used to have a normal brain, (before I broke the passenger side window of my prom date’s car with my head) so I vaguely remember how it is to fit in with society and not feel like an outsider in my own body. Though, that was over a decade ago, so the memory of that feeling is fleeting more and more with each day that passes.
I have several friends with mental health problems and they often tell me about how they struggle to deal with small bumps in life or (what I want to focus on) to navigate websites (and I know it is because of their impatience and frantic behaviors) and I want to go about fixing that problem as much as possible.
I have a few friends that have physical disabilities, but to be honest . . . we don’t talk very much about the issues those disabilities cause them, it’s often hard for them to describe the problems because most of them have never seen color or clearly, so they can’t describe how difficult it is and why it’s harder for them than it would be for me. I don’t really know if or how I can help websites to accommodate to physically disabled users, but that is why I am learning this stuff!!
It’s really important to me that I do something that will directly affect the people of the world (aka fellow inhabitants of this globe) in my professional life.
OMG !!! VALENTINE’S DAY comes TOMORROW, guys !!!!! 😀
*my gamer name is LobebugAly, and I feel like I embody that in my personal life too. But, I just really like to ‘lay it on thick’ with my clan-mates this time of the year 🙂
(yes, I’m a gamer, but only in one RPG where I’m raising a dragon)
Also, I like all of the stuff that the ‘typical girl’ likes: animals, kids, books, movies, beaches, spa days, picnics, etc. But that’s not very special.
What is special about me is my propensity and love for providing for others. That is why I am going into Web Development and UX Design.
There you have it ! If you want to know more about me, just ask. I’m really open about my past and present. I would be about my future too, but I legitimately have no idea what is going to happen in my life in an hour let alone in the future.
My love to all, especially on the globally (or maybe it’s just America) commercialized day of love (Valentine’s Day),
Aly Mae (LovebugAly) 😘 😘
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