My life until now... (Part 2)

4th grade and up until 8th grade is still pretty much a big blur, but a much clearer blur than before...
Of course I'm not gonna bore you all with every single details of my life in 4th grade until 8th grade. So what I will say here is that my life from 4th grade and up was really perfect and nothing really significant happened except for around the time of St. Nicholas our whole school was messed up because the 'trash' Jacks (de rommelpieten :P) came to our school. Of course any major change is the worst for an autist like me, so i panicked and cried and went to my mom crying.
For the rest of this part of my life was pretty casual and just really fun, nothing majorly happened. Up until 7th grade. Somewhere simultaneously with 7th grade i went through some tests and they found out that I have autism... My parents and I both had the same kind of reaction: "Oh, so that's why!" My parents always knew there was something different about me in comparison to the other kids and I always knew that I was a little different than my classmates and now we finally knew. It was actually great news to hear so we could improve and make my life a little easier with the knowledge.
The first big challenge then was homework, because my brain just can't cope with the idea of working at home. Home is Home and School is School. period. So to make this work my parents and I decided I would stay at school until at least most of my homework was done and that worked like a charm through the whole 7th grade!
Sadly somewhere in 7th grade my elementary school sweetheart moved away to somewhere else, at least to me she was my sweetheart but the only romantic thing we did was hang out in school, but still I cried my heart out when she left. I still think sometimes, what if...
Anyway, then came 8th grade and the next challenge was making a BIG report about something, you could choose whatever you want and just write a BIG report about it. Of course, I couldn't decide what, eventually I went with martial arts but I didn't know how to write a BIG report and I panicked but eventually my mother and teacher helped me out a lot, it still wasn't a very good report eventually (I asked questions about each martial arts and then answered them, so the report was a bunch of questions and answers...) but I was still proud of myself for doing it.
The biggest challenge yet was finding a school, I couldn't cope with the idea of leaving my school, so eventually I went to no open days at all, the only thing I visited to check what school I wanted was a presentation about one school and getting a tour around the school of another (together with my mom). Eventually I chose for the latter, because the first school was the school my brothers went too and they didn't have a great experience there...
Ow wait I forgot all about the CITO-test, it's a big test in elemtary school to see how far you have gotten in 8 years. I scored 496 out of 500 points so I was pretty amazed by myself. Because this qualified me for being a smart person. Yay, me!
This also meant I could go for a VWO study (which basically means A-level study in the US, I think) but my parents hesitated, mainly because of my autism, but I said to them and to myself: "Let's just give it a chance!"
So I went and got accepted at the Ashram College (that second school I visited) and had a great time there!

But for now I'm done writing so... To Be Continued! (in part 3)