They even put me in this group where we would leave the class for one hour a day and go do activities called the ‘out and about’ club. But in school, my life was hell because I was being singled out as the 'naughty' kid, or the weird kid who always played up.

People would scream and shout, which would cover the noises I was making. Of course, I always got the looks and the stares, but I was comfortable to do these things on a football pitch and feel totally normal because it was a loud and busy event. My head was forcing me to do these things that I couldn't stop.īy the time I was 8, I'd began to play football and realised I had a place where I did these things, and they mostly went unnoticed. My teachers would scream at me, kick me out of the class because I was disturbing the other kids learning, and from this, I'd become frustrated and react in temper because not only did other people not know what I was doing, I didn’t know either. As the time passed on, the school I was in at the time began to feel interrupted by this weird kid who did these weird things. My mum even cut my fringe because she thought I was trying to shake it out of my eyes. They had no clue what I was doing and would tell me to stop it, not in a bad way but because they thought I was just being a kid. From an early age, my parents noticed these movements and sounds I made, things like shaking my head and making a grunting noise from the back of my throat, almost as if I had something stuck in it.

All this I gained by working hard, focusing on my life, the paths I take, and striving every day to become to best possible version of myself.Īll of these aspects of my life came from my childhood, the experiences I had throughout, and my upbringing. My name is Keelan Mee, I sit here today writing this as a 24 year old man, with my own home, a beautiful fiancée, a stable job and a nice car. I'd like to dedicate this blog to my Grandad who never gave up on me. 'It's all about how you see yourself, not how others see you'.

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