My first blog!

Ok this is my first blog and this should interesting because I have so much to say.
Its hard to keep things inside and not tell anyone about them.

So thanks to Ashleigh, I started my own blog.
Since Ashleigh and me both have disabilities, I thought it would interesting to start writing about my troubles.
Ashleigh's troubles are nowhere near mine, but we still have problems.

Here we go:

I was born as a normal kid and everything seemed fine until I reached middle school and then everything changed.
I was smart-mouthing my parents, not caring about my homework, not doing my homework, etc. My parents thought it was just because I was maturing. Boy were they wrong.
Also I yelled at parents. I said things like, "I don't love you anymore. You don't care about me. Just leave me alone." I would slam doors, etc.
My yelling got so bad that every time I screamed, i screamed so loud that my siblings had to go outside so they wouldn't have to hear me.
When I was at school, I didn't yell, which was kinda of hard to do especially when you got picked on by bullies a lot. They never hit, they just called me names, and shut my locker even before I was done with it. Things like that wanted to make me yell, but I didn't.
One time the bullying got so out of hand, that one time I was sent to the assistant Principal's office for something I didn't do. It took the assistant principal awhile to figure out that it wasn't me.
School work was even harder. I had so much to do, I didn't even know where to start. My parents had to help me every night. Usually my homework would take like 5 hours to do, which was a long time.
Even during school, doing school work was hard. Since i was not a fast writer, it took me forever to take notes. Sometimes I had ask some of my classmates for their notes because I couldn't write that fast. Sometimes the teacher would give the notes when they were done with them. (back then, which wasn't that long ago, my teacher would use the overhead for our notes)

I barely past middle school. I failed seventh grade and had to take summer school. Which was nice because it was smaller then the normal classes that i used to take during the school months. Also I made a new friend that summer too. Hi Tyler!

High school on the other hand, was still too much for me. Just like middle school, there was lots of homework and sometimes I never got all of it done. I had friends, but they weren't that close. I still keep up with one of those friends. Hi Michael!

Like I said above, I barely graduated high school too. It was hard, but i made it!
I can now say that I graduated high school and I have the diploma to prove it!

Through all this, my family has been very supported of me. It took years to figure out what was wrong with me. I went to many people who thought they could figure out what was wrong with me, but that didn't help. finally in spring 2005, I found out that I had Aspergerer's Syndrome, which is a minor type of autism. AS (as I call it) hasn't been around for that long. I think its only 10 years old. My family has been trying their best to find things about AS that could help me.

One thing is for sure, I have a job. A good one at that. part-time, nice pay and lovely people to work with.

Also I have become a Christian as well. Its really hard, but I'm trying.
I keep thinking the Bible is boring but i know there are some interesting stuff in it, I just haven't had the time to look for it.
I've been in church all my life. I can't think of a time where i haven't been in church. I would always go on Sunday mornings and Wednesday nights.

So that is why I put "God's Special Child" as my title.
Because I am his special child and I know he has a plan for me somewhere in the future.
Here's a quote that i keep reading over and over again:

If God seems so far, far away at times...guess who moved?

It fits me perfectly. I have moved away from God but God hasn't moved anywhere.
Speaking of quotes, here are some more that I found pertaining to God, that I like.

Some of God's greatest gifts are unanswered prayers.
~Garth Brooks

Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.
~Leo Buscaglia

God always answers our prayer. Either He changes the circumstances, or He supplies sufficient power to overcome them.
~Anonymous

God will not look your over for medals, degrees or diplomas, but for scars.
~Elbert Hubbard

Ok that's all!
Sorry that was a lot, but i was a roll.

Ok so that was my story.
Hope you enjoyed it!

Sarah