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The life of Scott
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Dec 01 2011
12:26:02 PM
I was born in Florida USA and started high school this year. I am homeschooled and I do my school from my house in FLVS which is a state funded virtual school. I'll start at the beginning. I was born in palm city and lived there with my mom, dad, and older brother until I was fore when I moved to Georgia. Georgia was nice. I liked the weather but the people there had accents that I never could get used to. My little brother was born in Georgia and he was the cutest little thing. about 6 months later we moved back to Florida when I was 6 and I met my old friends that I new since I was born. I called them the five boys because they were all brothers/sisters and I guess 5 to me just meant a big number. I am still friends with them to this day. When we moved to Florida again we were staying in a boring uptight cookie cutter gated community. We had a small house with almost no yard. my dad had been looking at houses since we moved in because no one in our family liked the one we lived in. it took him about 5 years to finally find a great house. it was on the river no gated community and had a big yard. So when we decided to get it I asked my mom if I can get a dog. she said okay but I didn't believe her because she has a history with braking promises with me. I still did all the research I could and learned about all these different types of breeds and how to train dogs. My grandma came to are house for the weekend once and she brought a dog who she was taking care of for my uncle who couldn't keep him. I asked if I could take care of the dog for a week. she said okay but after the week had past I asked my uncle If I could keep him, he said yes and the dog named max has been with me since. he is so wonderful and I trained him to be a therapy dog. max is a Pembroke welsh corgi. I know so far what you heard was good stuff but probably the biggest struggle I have had is learning how to read. I couldn't read till I was 9. My mom and I tried every thing. hooked on fonix, getting my eyes check which by the way only showed that I have 20/20 eye site. at the point of me being 9 and couldn't read I was about to give up but Then my mom found stuff on the internet that described traits of dyslexics. my mom gave a test to me and then we realized I was dyslexic. let me just clear something up. there seems to be a stereotype for dyslexics that i have found. the stereotype is that dyslexics are mentally retard or just don't have normal brain function. here is the truth. Dyslexia can be inherited through family members, It is more common in men, and is not a mental illness but is simply a different way of thinking. See dyslexics are not reading impaired but can't learn how to read the same way others learn how to read. So that said my mom found a curriculum that was desghined to help dyslexics learn how to read. So I did it and now I know how. Now to another part of me. I have been practicing karate for 5 and a half years. I am currently a 1st degree black belt and a year away from my second degree. I am also working on Katana fighting which if you don't know what what that is. it is the Japanese sword of the samurai. back to my life story. We moved in to the house and I asked my mom if I could get another pet. she said what, I said a small animal. so that's when I started doing research on sugar gliders. I did so much and now after a year of research I got them only 5 days ago and they are doing so well. Oh here is another important thing about me. I am Jewish and have had my bar Mitzvah. I never really got in to being Jewish until i was 9 when i started learning Hebrew. I can read Hebrew pretty well but I don't under stand a word of it. some thing that bugs me is when ever you go to a party there is usually one person in the crowd who assumes every one is christian and tries to get every one to say a prayer with Jesus. my grade is all A but I have trouble keeping on pace. I like animals but I am not a tree hugger. I am fascinated with weaponry and love shooting when I can and I play Airsoft. I used to play video games but they got boring and I realized it is a wast of time. I love learning about history and different time periods. my favorites are ancient Japanese, ancient Greeks, the 16th century Europe. my hobbies include karate, physical phitnes, taking care of my animals, and guns. My heritage includes, Mostly french and Peruvian, some German, south american Indian, and a very very low % chines. I dislike drugs smoking and tattoos. Well there you go, there is so much more to talk about but That is the mane stuff.
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Dec 01 2011
12:52:52 PM
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Hi Scott!!! Nice to meet you. I have a daughter that is dyslexic and let me tell you she is by far my smartest. She is in the National Junior Honor Society as well. You sound like a pretty awesome person. Never let anyone stereotype you because of a disabilty. You can deal with it. It's hard but you can. My daughter uses color overlays while she is readingto keep her eyes from dancing all over the pages. The words all tend to run together if you read from just white paper. Blue overlays (transparencies) work wonders with helping dyslexics. I hope you get everything you want and need from life.
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Dec 01 2011
12:53:24 PM
AshleyJ Glider Visit AshleyJ's Photo Album USA 158 Posts
Nice to meet you!
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Dec 01 2011
01:53:13 PM
kyro298 Glider Sprinkles GliderMap Gliderpedia Editor Visit kyro298's Photo Album kyro298's Journal CO, USA 15262 Posts
Hi Scott. :) I'm Jewish too...don't let the prayer thing bother you. Say your own at the same time to yourself. It all goes to the right place. ;) You're a pretty interesting guy!
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Dec 01 2011
04:13:29 PM
jjmurph Face Hugger GliderMap Visit jjmurph's Photo Album USA 836 Posts
I didn't know you were jewish Kylah. Nice to meet you scott
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Dec 02 2011
10:07:29 AM
Aud Glider Visit Aud's Photo Album FL, USA 153 Posts
I was born and raised in Palm city. =)
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