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My name is ArubaTim, and I have been a long time browser, but finally now decided to join your online community! I must say, it's been one heck of a journey for me, seeing as I switched schools so fast, I never had a true "high school experience". By so fast, I mean that freshman year I attended public school, but refused to go because the administrators at the time, put me in "self-contained classroom" for the Whole day, thinking it would help. It didn't that's for sure, and so the district placed me in a therapeutic day school called High Road Student Learning Center for "emotional support" It was depressing there too, as not only was I out of the loop, I also didn't fit in there at all. Why did I need the emotional support? B/c at the same time, my dad (well not biologically, as I was adopted at 2 and a half months, but he was my dad still) was dying of ALS/Lou Gehrig's Disease. Great as if I didn't have enough to worry about. High Road was not even a safe place for me to be at, so at my PPT in June, I requested and luckily got approved to spend 1/2 a day at High Road and the other at Cheshire High School. However, when I went back full-time to CHS, for junior year, everything went more than well, until April 2007. My two church leaders left the church, one for Australia, and the other as it so happens to the church next town over. (They both were "father figures') The one who went to the next town's church basically told me that he could never call or contact me again, and that was like as harsh as you can get. He even covered up his true new job, by saying I am going to work for the Diabetes Association or something like that. That pushed me over the limit, and then my mom without even letting me speak my mind, placed me at High Road for the last 2 months of the 2006-2007 year and the summer school, which by the way was my first summer school experience of any kind. Terrible mistake, as I swore High Road got worse in my perspective, and thus I researched possible Aspergers schools. Found 3, got accepted into 1, and the other two never even called back. The acceptance was from Franklin Academy in East Haddam, CT which was like Heaven. I'd be glad to share my stories there if you want. I lived there too, which made it great, and got a high school diploma from there in June 2009. Right now I am stuck at Chapel Haven, a residential Aspie independent living school, but feel very out of place there. Good (even ironic) thing my PPT us coming up in 12 days, so I can hopefully speak my mind. As far as stuff I enjoy, I can say that, I have a plethora of interests from sports (watching mostly, but playing some), to board games and Wii, to books and writing, and meeting new friends both Aspie and NT. Oh and I also love to cook, and am semi-fluent in Spanish, Papiamento, and know enough French and German to get by. Of course I also love to travel, especially to my timeshare in Aruba. My hopes and dreams include: marrying my girlfriend of now almost 6 years (a fellow Aspie too!) by 2013, getting a certificate (for now) from a community college, going to at least 2 European countries, publishing a book, and meeting some of my heroes. Already accomplished the hero meeting, having met Chef Emeril Lagasse, Brian Leetch (new york rangers retired hockey player) and Christopher Reeve (before he passed. Well, I am glad I could give you a background about me, and now as they say let's roll!

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Welcome aboard greetings to the WP, ArubaTim.

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Thanks for the warm welcome! Especially from a fellow Tim! Why would you like to go to Iceland? Just curious as I have always wanted to go there, as well as Norway Sweden and Denmark. I am interested in hearing about all of you as well! Feel free to Private message me if the occasion is there, it's always good talking among your own kind!

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