My Name is Pamela Nanette Yarbrough
I am the Mom of two wonderful young men. Damien is 29 and Dylan is 28 (Dyl was born on Damien’s 1st birthday). I am married to my high school sweetheart, Sammy, who found me after us being apart for 30 years.
My most recent employment is at First Financial Bank, where I work as the Digital Product Owner. If you have used our mobile app or online banking, I have had a hand in ensuring that it works optimally. Prior to the bank, I worked for Child Protective Services as an Investigator, so I have learned what it is to be a survivor on two fronts. I am a domestic abuse survivor, as I was severely abused in my late teens to early twenties. I have also watched, investigated, and cared for children who lived in hostile environments. Furthermore, I have grown up with family members with mental illness (specifically bipolar disorder with psychosis) and drug addiction.
My interest in mental disabilities and mental illness have spurred my academic and career paths. I have a degree in Special Education, with an emphasis in Autism, Secondary Education, English Language Arts, and Mathematics. The math was just for fun. On this site, you will find several articles on autism, stories about living with a child with autism, quotes from Damien, and videos made about autism. You will also find stories on growing up with a sibling with mental disabilities and mental illness, as well as research on other mental disabilities and mental illnesses.
Furthermore, I have included some fictional stories, poetry, and writing exercises. I love to write, and writing is something that I often do. Most days, I write from the time I get up in the morning until I go to bed at night. I also enjoy photography, sketching, painting, scrap booking, and other crafts. From time to time, my arts will be included on the site as well.
I am currently re-evaluating my faith and attempting to discover/rediscover my spirituality. I do have some articles on spirituality in several posts, and I will continue to post on my thoughts and ideas every once in a while.
Enjoy reading my thoughts and ideas. My mission is not to offend. This is my path to personal catharsis. What I think today, I may not agree with tomorrow. I am not static and stationary. I am a round character in this round world of ours, I will continue to grow and change.
QUOTES:
We are all different, individual, and there is no such thing as normal.... what is normal for me may not be normal for you. ~ PammyMcB
"If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants." ~ Isaac Newton
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INTERESTS: Computers, Artwork, Poetry, Short Stories, Children's Stories, belly dancing, salsa dancing, yoga, rock music, swimming, arts & crafts, Dancing, Painting, Drawing, Writing, Designing Web Pages, Mac Addict, Autism Advocate, Animals, mother, photography, reading, watching good movies, domestic abuse advocate, school, education, life, family, love, Scottish, Irish, Blackfoot, Cherokee, Creek Nation, PTSD, bi-polar, families
MOVIES: Johnny Depp, Snow Cake, Monty Python’s Holy Grail, Benny & Joon, Braveheart, Harvey, The Crow, Sleepy Hollow, Dead Man, What's Eating Gilbert Grape, Radio, V for Vendetta, Shaun of the Dead, Fido, Zombieland, Interview with the Vampire, Chocolat, 28 Days Later, Pink Floyd The Wall, LaPorte Indiana: A Documentary Film, zombie flicks
TELEVISION: Walking Dead, Charmed, Nip/Tuck, Animal Planet, Spongebob Squarepants, Foster's Home of Imaginary Children, History Channel, Clash of the Gods, Jon Stewart, The Colbert Report, Talk Soup with Joel McHale
MUSIC: Sex Pistols, Kiss, Blink 182, White Zombie, Ministry, Pantera, Green Day, ACDC, Evanescence, Strychnyne, Thought Disorder, Pink Floyd, Green Day, Dave Matthews, The Blues Traveler, Hootie and the Blowfish, Brian McKnight, Type O Negative, Godsmack, Collective Soul, Violent Femmes, The Ramones, The Clash, Enya, Stone Temple Pilots, Sarah McLachlan, Bob Dylan, Flyleaf, Lenny Kravitz, Hellyeah, Bon Jovi, Metallica, Janis Joplin, Blackeyed Peas, Concrete Blonde, Nirvana, Gregory and the Hawks, classical, dance, techno, electronic, world music, celtic, Native American, Romanian, Bush, System of the Down, Sound Garden, Metallica, etc. etc. etc.
BOOKS: Black Pearls: A Faerie Strand, Daughters of Witching Hill, Child Thief, The Devil's Rose, Green Witch, Gathering Blue, Little Vampire Women, Living Dead Girl, The Looking Glass Wars, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: Dawn of the Dreadfuls, Ravens, The Way I See It, World War Z, Witch, A Tale of Two Cities, Emergence Labeled Autistic, Edgar Allan Poe, Great Irish Tales of Horror, Incantation by Alice Hoffman (actually just about any Alice Hoffman), Julia Alvarez, The Heart of Darkness, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Virginia Woolf, Katherine Mansfield, Alice In Wonderland, The Bell Jar, Stephen King, All Cats Have Aspergers, Shel Silverstein, Good Night Moon (ask me why), Invisible Man (Ellison), Same Kind of Different as Me, The Shack, Shakespeare In A Nutshell, Boneshaker, Fathom, Married With Zombies
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