My life until now... (Part 3)

The third big part of my life is middle school of course, where I grew from a wee little man to a big little man!
Throughout the first few years of middle school, I gradually came to the promise that I will show people that even though I have autism I can and will be a socially 'accepted' person. Because I found out that every known autist has problems on the social level and I wanted to show people that you don't have to...
This eventually lead to some problems in my studies, because I wasn't focused on learning the stuff from the books, but learning the stuff from the people around me. Instead of experiments on physics or science I did social experiments for myself, I was always looking for the boundary between socially acceptable and just plain awkward and weird.
I also found out that memorizing a list of words for some foreign language is just impossible for me, I just seriously can't make myself remembering what every frikkin' little 'fudge'-word means in some language I don't even understand (English is the exception, but that is because I REALLY watched A LOT of English cartoon network...)
In retrospect if I wouldn't have focused on getting social with people, I would have probably gotten straight A's or B's but then I would be like some self-centered unsocial super nerd or something and I knew straight away I didn't want that. And to my pride, I still get question marks on faces when I tell people I have autism!
Actually most of the time my life in middle school was pretty awesome, it wasn't like a normal teenager would experience it probably, because I still had my autistic breakdowns from time to time (crying about how life is too hard and that I just can't do it any more, a little bit like mini-depressions, which would then be solved by my mother by patiently saying: "What's the worst that could happen?" Me examining that question and answer: "Nothing much, I guess...") but now I at least had an explanation for my weird behavior from time to time...
I really loved middle school and it really helped me grow a lot as a person both physically and mentally, both socially and personally. I would like to thank everyone at my middle school for that!
Anyway, eventually my exams came and the only thing I did to study for them was scanning the insides of the book and saying: "Know that, Know that, Know that, ow wait don't know that, what was it again? Ow yeah... Okay, know that, know that, etc." And for every exam I got somewhere between 5.5 and 6.5 (5.5 is the border between failed and passed) so I passed my exams by just a heartbeat I guess, but I did it in one continuous effort, whilst being socially accepted by everyone in my class! Hooray for me and every autist out there in this crazy world of ours!

Ow I forgot, in the meanwhile I tried to find me a follow-up study and I knew I wanted to do something with games... After visiting some Game Design university thing in Breda, I found out I don't like the idea of learning only one thing specifically, so I said around: "I'm looking for a study that has something to do with games..." Until my Aunt Inger came by and said: "Hey, maybe the study I did (DVTG) is something for you!" So I went there with an Open Day and I absolutely LOVED it, the smell, the feel, the people... It was all totally like I belonged there. So After I passed my exams I applied for the study (after visiting A LOT while being in middle school) and I got accepted! YAY!

This will be continued in the next and final part... PART 4!