Whats the hardest thing you have ever done in your life?
 

Curious what is the hardest thing you have ever had too do in your life?

Did you do it?

to walk few kms? :D

50 KM ultra marathon, squatting 160 kgs.

Did both, with ease.

Get married

Watch a friend slowly kill himself with Heroin

Bury my best friend and three weeks later my other best friend. Both from car accidents. This was 8 years ago.

To summon the assorted Doctors and Physical Therapists and seriously, truthfully ask them "What's next" after being told I would be paralyzed for life without letting depression or despair set in.

physically? probably when i was training really hard to bench 325lbs. a lot harder than i thought to get from 285 to 305, then 4x as hard to get to 325

but probably the hardest thing ive had to do in my life was make the decision to move out of Los Angeles and back to PA about two years ago. i had setup a business there, had friends and a nice apt and LOVED the life, but all of my family and college friends were back in PA and I felt that I was missing out on a lot not being around.

it was really stressful because I just broke up with my gf that we were together for 5 1/2 years as well as having to say by to some really good friends in LA and the life I had there to go settle back in PA with family and knowing it would be a very slim chance that I would ever move back.

I think the toughest part was not just moving out of LA, but knowing that I moved there with nothing out of college, had just enough money to pay the first month and security deposit and struggled for the first few months to have enough money to eat. I would be in Ralphs thinking "i cant wait until i can buy name brand pasta sauce." :1orglaugh

So it was more of leaving a life accomplishment behind. when i would pull out my CA license and people would ask about living LA i felt proud that I did it when everyone (family and friends) said it was a bad idea to move there without a job

Learning to surf was pretty tough.

tell my biological father to eff himself, havent spoke to him in 8 years and then changed my last name to my mothers maiden name

Wow...it's been 13 since I did the same. I dropped my last name so my last name is now what was my middle name. But that was easy...

The hardest thing I ever did I am doing day-in and day-out. I am a single dad of a 7-year old boy with Asperger's Syndrome. It's just me and him 24/7, 10.5 months a year and has been since 2005. When he was first diagnosed back in '06 he was labeled hardcore Autistic with Dyspraxia. That was unacceptable to me. I took a long look at other kids his age and started working with him every spare minute to try and get him up to speed. It started paying off almost immediately as 3 months later his neurologist couldn't believe he was the same kid.

He continues to have struggles and challenges but he is learning to read, is very good at math and his speech is "close" to normal. He still has a long way to go and he is struggling in first grade...but the good news is, this year, he is in a mainstream classroom. He gets pulled 2 hours a day for intervention...and I have a tutor for him on Tuesdays and Thursdays. All-in-all I truly believe he will be normal, fully functioning and capable of living as an adult on his own. Most parents want their kids to be this or that when they grow up. I want my son to be able to hold a job, balance his checkbook and pay his bills without assistance.

Put that in your smoke and pipe it.

lost a friend from cocaine, setup by a few people on fall street and ending up doing time for something i had no involvement in.

I finally had to face the fact that I really wasn't a designer and stop humiliating myself on a webmaster forum every time I tried to get a job designing. Wait...that wasn't me, was it?

thats hot!

two day Sahara trip...

had to move a heavy couch in college.

Great story!
I can only imagine the thing's you have had to set aside.

Is Asperger's a fairly new discovery? I've been hearing more and more about it lately.

Wow got some deep stuff in this thread. I think for me it was being pregnant at 19 alone, then putting my baby up for adoption and leaving the hospital empty handed after 56 hours of labor.

She turns 24 on Dec 20th and I still think about her, especially on her birthday and Mothers day.

Hahahahah! That made me laugh, only because I am there with ya! Oh ya, and one of those old school big ass TVs

quit smoking...

oh ya, still haven't managed that...

Figuring out this interweb thingy!

Learning to surf, learning to play guitar.

getting out of debt!

wood rep at l.a. county MCJ #1900

Dude.... if that is true, that really does take some self restraint. I know if I were in your shoes, that mother fucker would, at the least, not be walking on two legs right now.

the half dozen times I went to visit Eve, silly thing doesn't believe I'm Adam

leave my ex wife

wow man that must be difficult - i feel ya there

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For me it was quitting a good job and moving to LA to take a shot at being a screenwriter. I didn't know anyone in LA and had no job lined up. I flew down and spend 3 days looking for an apartment then once I got a place to live I flew home, gave my 2 weeks noticed then loaded up the car and drove out there.

In the end it didn't work out, but I learned a lot about myself and I made some contacts, friends and learned some things that have really helped me out since then.

Damn, kind of puts a lot of things into perspective.

I don't mean to "troll" here, and I say this with the best of intentions, but I am intimately familiar with the intricacies and idiosyncrasies of Asperger's and your description of your son does not really resemble Asperger's much. While these diagnoses can cover a broad spectrum of attributes, with some overlap, I suspect the original label was closer to correct. One does not graduate from one to the other by working at it. If you prefer to believe your son is Aspie instead of some other label, it's none of my business, but if your (new?) doctor is calling this Asperger's then I recommend you consult other professionals. :2 cents:

Woah! That fucking sucks... :(

Be a pall Bearer at my kid sisters funeral. She was 23.

Quit smoking cigarettes after 40+ years of nicotine bliss.

I would sooner say his first neurologist (Dr. RobertoTuchman, Dan Marino Center of Weston, FL) was an arrogant prick (IMHO) who got off on telling parents their kids were fucked up. My son's current neurologist here in Charlotte is aces :thumbsup

Likewise, I didn't share my son's personal history here. There is a great debate about what *can* cause disorders under the Autism spectrum, but my son's unique case rather busts out all current theories. There's a reason I have custody...I am not going to bag on his mother but, essentially, my son was born into the actual world just before his third birthday when I divorced his mother and she was removed from his day-to-day existence.

It's never ending...but as he grows older, and his skills (social and academic) develop and mature, it makes me having something more resembling an actual life far easier. Only 18 months ago I couldn't go grocery shopping (for example) with him as I never knew what I was going to have with him once I got to the store. Now, by all appearances, he's just like any other kid in public :upsidedow

Fortunately no family hardships, etc. One of the msot challenging things physically I've done is ride a bicycle from Ulan Bataar (Mongolia) south through the desert for a week.

Rewarding though :)

Very Impressive. Great job man :thumbsup

i guess it would be getting myself out of a life that was almost dictated to me from birth. middle income, never leave your town, boring life. it took a lot of determination.

I came prepared today, I brought a lunch and soda; And I'm not leaving until I see this god damn sail boat everyone keeps talking about.

read barefootsies pathetic spam 50 times a day

Making my mind to get married, I am still doing it. :(

Hmm .. do you know her now? Have you seen?

climbing this bad boy was the hardest thing ive ever done...the person i went up with only made it about 30 minutes above the tree line...i left them there and continued to the top.
took us forever to get down as they had over exerted their ankles and couldnt walk down properly, they spent 2 weeks recovering...i was sore for a few days as well..i did another smaller one while out there as well


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