I was born March of 1992 in the Alaska Native Hospital in Anchorage, Alaska. My mother was sent there for the duration of the pregnancy by the authorities in Juneau. Sept. 9 1991 was my first day of sobriety. I was born with a normal average weight of 7pounds, but I did not grow. I had a failure to thrive. No one looked into why. They just assumed that my Mother was not taking proper care of me. The truth was that I have a Sub-mucus cleft palate. I would drowned a little bit every time I would eat. So at six months old I was very small. The picture of me at that age shows me the size of a 3 month old. I was not able to move or react as a child of six months. I was born with eczema from head to toe. At six months old my father took custody of me and my life was changed for evermore.

 This was some of the happiest times of my life that I can remember.  I was living in Oregon and this is when I met my Grandparents Roy and Susan Hempel.  Grandma worked at the mill with my father.  He met Grandma's Daughter Amy.  They dated and became engaged.  For the next three years I lived and stayed with the Hempel's.  This is how I adopted them. The time came when my Dad and Amy broke up and I was left with Grandma and Grandpa so my Dad could go to Alaska to start a new life for us.  When he came back and took me to Alaska I did not know or understand that I would not see my Grandparents for 7 years.  My life was about to change once again and not for the better. 
My start in school at Juneau, Alaska.   This was my first grade class room.  My Birthday, Still no hair to speak of and extreme eczema.  I was having problems with my balance, sight, hearing, walking and understanding what the adults in my life wanted from me.  I have short term memory lose.  You can only give me simple tasks with one step at a time directions.  This will be the case throught my life.  So to survive in this world that does not make exceptions for us that have an unseen condition of such astronomical proportions that the Doctors and Teachers can not comprehend.  We learn to make due with what we have.  We lie, cheat, steal (usually food) things we need.  We don't seem to understand boundries.  So now I do not just have physical problems to deal with.  I now have emotional and mental problems I do not know that I have.  I think that everyone thinks this way.  I can not tell you because I get called stupid or told over and over in an abstract way, I can not understand.  By the way we FASD kids can not think in abstracts.  So we do not think outside the box.... EVER....   So now at the age of 7 to 15 I start Hiding myself from all that might be albe to  help me.