“I can concentrate and do all these small tasks to equal something beautiful”
I grew up in special ed. I was told in elementary school that I would never read past elementary level and it took a lot of effort and a lot of work and amazing parents to get me into classes that were meant for children who needed help on the mental side of things, like ADHD and OCD, things like that that prevented them from processing and learning skills that every other child would have. I was always the special ed kid. I rode the short bus. And for me, I ran with it, I made it work. I found my way to learn and I overcame being the special ed kid. I found art and I found my passionate in sewing. My inability to focus seems to go away when I am sewing. I can concentrate and do all these small tasks to equal something beautiful. And that is what makes me happy.
I have a white teddy bear who had a mouse on it shoulder. He was just Teddy, he had no special name. It was one of the first things I learned to sew. The mouse had fallen off of his shoulder when I was seven and my grandmother taught me to sew it back on. I had him since my first Christmas and to this day he lives in a box wrapped in blankets to make sure that he is perfectly safe. I will always keep a hold of him as long a I possibly can. He was that person to talk to you at night. That person who didn’t judge me, didn’t call me the weirdo, a nerd. It meant a lot to me to have somebody that was not going to talk back so that I could get out my feelings, have somebody that was there.
We roam around to different conventions, anime conventions, gaming conventions, entertaining conventions. Anywhere there is costumes and cosplayers. We go to help fix their costumes. It is my way to give back for the love and skill that I have for sewing. It’s all completely free. It’s all out of the kindness of our hearts. We know that if we can fix somebody’s costume then they are going to have a great day. We have been called cosplay EMTs.