My whole life I have been in childcare, wondering how to do classroom management, and I was depressed doing it. When I was at the end of the line about to throw everything away, I decided to monitor my own behavior. Treat my life like a social experiment. To see if my perception of life was in my head or if it was reality with actual proof of what happens on the outside regardless of my opinion of why they are doing what they are doing.

So on top of learning and monitoring and changing my students behaviors, I did that on myself, which is why I am in school for analyzing behaviors.

I love my job and I think I am really good at it. My clients are able to ask for what they need, take care of themselves, and access the community as well. But I do know it gets a bad reputation because of how ABA started a long time ago. But with how our ethics evolved, our field is all positive reinforcement and doing things that are only beneficial for them. And not changing things that are not harmful, such as some stimming. If it seems strange to others, it’s not my problem because my client is being himself and not harming anyone else.

Anyways, I love my job and I think I am really good at my job. The moment I started, my supervisor thought I would be a great behavior analyst, which I didn’t believe her at first but I guess she saw the knack that I had! It just makes me feel like I’ve found my place in this world, helping people for a living. Everything I learned in school are things that I have learned on my own on my own journey of changing myself out of depression and literal crippling anxiety.

To be honest, I’m thinking about doing my masters in psychology too if I am bored enough. so I can understand behaviors and the mind to understand people at the fullest extent!