Chad Howe

So I just sent them my name and then the students would sign off on how many hours I read their books and the state would send me a check.

So I would sit in on these students' classes.

and I would take their notes, and I would take their tests.

So they would sit in in the class, and when there's a test, they would tell me what to write.

So we would sit in the back, and the teacher would do the test, and I would read the test to the student, and they would give me the answer, and I'd write out their test.

And the professors got used to me as well.

So I just started sitting in on any class I wanted, chemistry, comp sci, whatever interested me, I just started sitting in on, and nobody asked me any questions, because they just thought I was there helping the blind student.

And they're like, they didn't seem to notice they didn't have any blind students in the class, but they didn't seem to care, right?

I don't know.

For me, it's just normal.

That's how I grew up.

and you know the college was my playground and i just plus i'm autistic which i didn't know until um last year you didn't know until last year 2022 or 22 i forget but it's in the last year so i learned i was autistic i didn't know and so that explains a lot of my life but i just thought it was normal school was always just embarrassingly easy for me i mean i used to sleep through a lot of my classes because i was staying up night at programming yeah i would stay up all night programming

And then I'd go to school, I'd sleep in my class and the teachers would joke because they'd like, they'd wake me up and they'd ask me a question and I still knew the damn answer because, you know, it was just so jokingly easy for me.

I was living on my own at 17.

I went to this good school until like three months before I graduated.

And then my parents had been fighting and they finally, I'm not going to get into that, but they finally split for good.

And so I ended up living 300 miles away from where I grew up on my own at 17, still trying to finish high school, working at night with two other dudes that are in their 20s.

Yeah, yeah.

Yeah.

In high school, I moved with my grandmother.