Elkholy?

My name is Alex Elkholy. (I sometimes go by ‘Alyks’ on the internet, pronounced as ‘Alex’.) The way you pronounce the Elkholy is to break it up, like so:

Elk and Holy

I’m sure you know what an ‘elk’ is? Seen a picture? Right, it’s a species of deer. Well, you take that Elk and you add a Holy to it. If you live in North America, I’m absolutely positive you know what ‘holy’ means. So you put those two words together and you get Elkholy. You say ‘Elk’, then you say ‘holy’ and you’ve got the pronunciation down pat.

Now that we’ve gotten that out of the way, I can tell you about me and this site.

My life story is relatively boring at this point. What I’ve had to overcome is far more interesting of a subject. When I was younger the doctors liked to through around scary words like “Obsessive compulsive” or “Autism/Aspergers syndrome”, and also gave me some different types pills. When I grew older into my teens, I didn’t much like the associations and tried to do away with them.

I had to completely change the way I thought right down to my basic behaviors. Which ended up being a very interesting [read: boring, irritating, downright discouraging] experience, especially when dealing with high school and the irritating things that occupy them. Before I moved from Montana (where I lived for a couple of years), where all this happened, most people at school did not have very fond memories of me.

A little after moving to Arizona, I was doing better and was able to rid myself of the terribly addicting pills they had given me. I had dropped out of high school and started going to the local community college at sixteen. Now I’m eighteen and mostly indistinguishable from normal people, except that in dealing with the many problems I experienced, I’ve learned several traits which I consider valuable:

Awareness – I like to think I have an above average awareness of what goes on around me. Ranging from everyday beliefs and thought processes, to how people are thinking. This ability has served me well when trying to change any kind of limited thinking.

Always trying to be better - For whatever reason, “good enough” just doesn’t cut it with me. There are always better ways to approach situations, life, tasks, and other such things. I’m usually not happy unless I’m pushing myself in some way.

This website was born out of my want to express my observations and to write in hopes that others can find them useful. I only write about my personal experiences and what I’ve found out, not just some regurgitated advice from others.