I am a living oxymoron, a paradox of personality: a country boy in the big city, a city-slicker in the country, an antisocial socialite, a pragmatic romantic with a masochistic heart, a wise child in a man’s body, a doubting Thomas who is in constant wonder of God’s creations.

10 Other Important details:

1. I was raised in the deep south way out in the country, so much that even to this day there is not internet or cell phone.
2. I was born with an enlarged jaw, and a long tongue. I did not learn to speak until I was already in school.
3. Language skills are a little more difficult for me still. I often mispronounce words or use the a word entirely incorrectly, though I have an extensive vocabulary.
4. Despite my language setbacks and being labeled as mentally challenged at an early age, I was later relabeled as gifted and took the SATs in 7th grade scoring over a 1000.
5. Mental illnesses are a familiar theme to me. They run on both sides of my family with varying severity. I myself have a mild form of tourettes, depression, OCD, ADD, and social anxiety.
6. I love debates and discussing hypothetical arguments. or anything controversial for that matter.
7. I will fight for the downtrodden, for minorities, for the poor, and the working class. I have faced challenges in my life, and have seen others face their, and I have determined I will not let people face them alone. I believe if we can help, then we should. Life is not a race, it is a journey we make together.
8. I believe we should strive to be tolerant to others, but not just tolerant but respectful. Unless they are hurting others in some shape and form.
9. I went to Clemson University with scholarships and worked up to three jobs at a time to support myself and graduated with honors.
10. I am a teacher inside and outside of school. I have taught in SC  at TL Hanna (where the movie Radio was filmed, in AZ at NWEC,( a k-12 charter school in Phoenix), and now at QSI  in China (a private international school in Shenzhen).