My life: A Summary

My life:A summary
So I want to keep passing this on....

@LegateLanius

Hey G@GERs,
I’ve been challenged by two users to present a small glimpse into my life.

so I shall

I was always a happy kid I will start off by saying that

So, I started my life born in Condell Libertyville IL on February 2nd 1984

This picture of Condell was taken in 1992 and would have looked pretty close to what it would have looked like when I was born

I was also born with a whole in my heart. But thankfully it healed....

so making this a summery story let's say that we fast forward past all the Christmases with tons of presents under the tree and cuddles with mom and dad into my school years

This is where things got interesting...… I was in and out of schools my whole kid life, schools could not handle me and kept tossing me into Lutheran General Hospital to get med changes. I was a really hyperactive kid. My mom said that doctors would show other doctors "this is what hyperactivity looks like" As my mom would say I was a kid that just had too many cups of coffee and just could not calm down, I also remember having endless amounts of energy. So, I just remember going into a hospital for months at a time then going back to school then the school putting me back into the hospital I really did not have much time to make friends because I was never in a steady place. I was also put into a special school even and the special school designed for hyperactive kids did not want me. In terms of not making any friends my mom also did not feel that it was safe by our apartment complex so she kept me from going outside to play with the other kids. It was all about libraries and video stores for me during this time of life

All that I understood and was close with involved movies, my first attraction/sexual arousal was Olivia Newton John in Grease

It's funny I would be really close to this scene from Scrooged

Ghost of Christmas Past: You still spend the next fifteen years sitting on your ass watching TV.
Frank: Check the records! I did some stuff. I played baseball. One year, I hit the home-run that won the big game--
Ghost of Christmas Past: That was the kid on The Courtship of Eddie's Father.
Frank: There was another time, though. I was on a hill covered with flowers, and there was a beautiful girl with pigtails--
Ghost of Christmas Past: PATHETIC! You are so pathetic! That was Little House on the Prairie!
Frank: ... Was it the the homecoming episode?
Ghost of Christmas Past: [exasperated] Yes, it was the homecoming episode of Little House. Let's face it, Frank. Garden slugs got more out of life than you.

That was me sitting in front of the tv... but I was involved in day camps every once in a while so I was with kids even when I was not in school. My mom wanted to keep with kids my age as much as possible. Even with that as much as she did for me, the schools kept pushing me back into the hospital. To the point of them saying "if a school won't take him we are going to have to institutionalize him"

Needless to say I am still here, a special school in Des Plaines IL took me in. and that allowed me to grow up and mature out of my hyperactivity to channel it another way. This led me into a special school called Allendale in their day program.

Yup, that's the school right there. From there I transitioned into doing high school part time

There is my high school, Mundelein. I did that for some time and was eventually put into it full time and after a while I got depressed and starting thinking suicidal thoughts. I had more friends and connections at my other school and much less at Mundelein. I decided to go back to a familiar and safe place that I remembered from my childhood, the hospital. I was there for a couple months or so and then came back but stayed the rest of my high school days at Allendale.

To bring this full circle, I need to say that as a hyperactive kid, they gave me government iron clad benefits, they said to my mom "he will never be independent and he will never get a full time job" So, I had and still have other people helping me with school stuff, among other things but I did not know how to get a job without effecting the benefits. and my mom was on benefits too, still is. So I kept on asking how to do this, nobody had an answer so I kept on waiting.

At the end of high school a special education program said we can hold your high school degree if you stay with us until you are 21 and we will help you to get a job. I said great! but what they were doing was job training, not a real job and it was pretty basic stuff I could have learned on my own. But I did during that time train in the Walgreens mailroom (yes they have a main headquarters with one), Six Flags Great America, Walmart, Jewel Osco, Manor Care and American Hotel among other places. Still even after all that, they said we don't know how to get you a job.... Frustrated I spent two years just doing nothing because no school and Just wanted to relax and have some time off, worst two years of my life. It is terrible to not do anything for two years.... It was extremely depressing but thankfully did not put me back into the hospital. So, What was the next step from here? College and more specially the college of lake county

That's the school right there. So, I took a little longer than most and went through my classes kind of slow, not taking many at first maybe like two and working my way up to three. I finished school and tried to get a job with an associates degree but this was also during a bad job season too... but even then an associates is just like a high school diploma now a days... so I went back to a another job program that had me train at marshals and eventually after the program one of the staff said "Johnathan! Just get it a job!" It was simple but sweet. It was not about how but doing it and adjusting to it later, that was a key nobody else was telling me. So I randomly started applying for Jobs at Gamestop, Family Video and Chuck E. Cheese. Until one day I walk into Chuck E. Cheese and I was just rolling my eyes and thinking it was going to be another turned down application but they asked if I wanted to interview for the job on the spot and I was hired soon after that

Dancing with the mouse and all.... I did that for about 3 years then I decided to go back to college because even though I was having no trouble with the job it was not going to pay for an apartment if I decided to move out. I went with Southern Illinois University and an online Hospitality degree.

Which I am still working towards. Currently still am on government aid for income and medical bills with hopes that after 20 years of waiting I will finally be gainfully employed! It is exciting because it is to an extend easier to get into government aid system then it is to get out of it. My hopes is by leaning on it now, I will have very little debt by the time I finish school and head on to start my first and have my own place for the first time in my life. I currently live with a roommate because I successfully found a place that I can live for 300 dollars a month including electric and water and garbage and to a small degree heating in the winter. So, hopefully I will make it through the next year or so and have some real money and place of my own for the first time in my life. I suppose one final piece about my life is my parents. They have always argued ever since I can remember. And a little known fact and amazing thing about my parents they met in a psych ward

So they were already off to a great start. I have always been the peace maker in my family and my brother that was from another relationship before my dad has tried to help keep the peace as well but it was left to me to try to hold them together. Basically there were different factors involved in this there was the stress of my mom that caused her to worry and my dad that did not want to be bothered which would be "do this, do this now or when are you going to" "stop it!" "when?" "Stop it now, I am warning you" "But when?" this would go on until some drastic would happen... my dad stored stuff in the house in cluttered heaps that he needed to move but had no real time line for and also he did not pay for many things. These factors among other things in some way all led It to finally come to end a couple of years ago. I thought it was going to be a temporary split that I felt that they needed but it ending up being permanent. It is so awkward because I have to see both of my parents every week and both need as much attention as I can give them which many times is not enough. and it is not uncommon for both to talk about death and suicide.... I like to have time to myself but I find that among my friends, family and church commitments I struggle finding time to be by myself sometimes and lose sleep to get that time like right now.... but I hope easier times are ahead for me …… fingers crossed

I nominate for this challenge
@AngelicSin

1. she started this trend or was at least a big part of it

2. She has a crazy five facts about herself that I would love to hear the timeline behind

3. she seems like a crazy girl and she'll want to get challenged anyway

@Whatthefluff I want to see how her life led up to now, she is very smart and I want to see how her life influenced her life choices

@pitzi because it would be fun to learn more about her

@blubblubblub she is really fun

and another someone from the land down under
@BeautifullyCurious

and if you also want to do this challege you don't need my formal invite but if you want it you can
ask for it in comments but here #Challengeyourself that's the special hashtag that lets you do it anyway