Here is my 'Life in the Day of Jonathan Smithies'.My mum usually wakes me up at around 6:30 am because I have to walk tothe bus at 7:30. When I wake up I turn my fan

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A Life in the Day [IMAGE]My name is Jonathan Smithies and I am 14 years old. I go to school atAltwood C of E Secondary; I am very happy there and I have lots offriends. Here is my ‘Life in the Day of Jonathan Smithies’.My mum usually wakes me up at around 6:30 am because I have to walk tothe bus at 7:30. When I wake up I turn my fan on so as to keep cool,that’s one of life’s problems for me; I am always too hot. I prefer toget up with plenty of time so that I have time simply to be, beforegoing into school. I don’t like to rush. It takes me about five to tenminutes to rouse myself and properly awake. Another thing about me isI find it really hard to get myself out of bed on weekdays. Atweekends I get up really early, probably because I know I have a wholeday ahead of me (quite different to other teenagers), and on schooldays it is quite the contrary, I would love to lie in, but as fatewould have it, that’s impossible. My school uniform is already on mychair (I lay it out the previous night), I get dressed and washed andgo downstairs to have my breakfast. I always eat the same breakfastfor about six months and then I’ll change and have something else. Atthe moment I’m having a hot cross bun with lots of strawberry jam andtropical juice. This is all part of having Obsessive CompulsiveDisorder, the hot cross bun needs cutting into quarters, top andbottom; it needs to be on the same bread board if possible and thesame amount of jam on each half. There
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are lots of other things thatneed to be done in a very specific and ordered way too, this can takea lot of time and be very frustrating. I always have my drink in mysports container. I find this embarrassing to tell people as it seemsa bit babyish, but without it, I would spill it all over the floor.This brings me on to the fact that I have a neurological disordercalled Tourette Syndrome. This means that I may jerk uncontrollablyand shout out wherever most inconvenient. Sometimes I am unaware ofdoing this and say, “I did well in that lift, no screaming ...

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