This is before 7th grade…seven years ago. Right around the age where things around me started feeling like a dream/unreal. Then in 9th grade I began isolating… in 10th I spent time in juvy… then in 11th I was in full blown psychosis. Now going into my second year out of high school.
I went through a whole bunch of pictures.
I loved my sister so much (still do) and when she went off to boarding school i felt so alone at home. We’re different people now. We don’t have the same connection we used to have.
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What a cutie-pie 
I think back and I don’t believe I was ever normal, but had a real break around 7th grade as well. I’m sorry you went through so much! My son did too…It breaks my heart. It really isn’t fair. 
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hey bro 
(its a fist bump not a punch) lol
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Seeing these old pictures affect me a lot… trying to remember how it felt to be that age. I’m not the same person I was before this illness… none of us are it seems.
@Hedgehog the year in the pic was great… i was on a basketball team with all my best friends. Life is fragile… those times are gone. Sorry about your son. 
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I can relate to this…but hey we’re doing good now amiwrong?
Well even if you’re not I’m sure it won’t be long.
I look at my yearbook photos and I can see me progressively getting worse each year, but now I look as good as ever i think
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I remember years ago watching home-movies with my family and my mom would be sobbing. She missed all of us being little. Simpler times when it was skinned knees and runny noses. Life always gets more complicated and serious and dangerous and difficult. The added ingredient of sz is just such a heavy added burden. But you are doing great…and my son is doing great…We’re amazing people. And when I look at the most frightening possibilities, I know we’re the lucky ones.
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I love this post, hedgehog… 
Everything has a plus side… on the plus side, we’re not boring, normal people 
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