Top 10 Accomplishments Volume 1

Here are my top ten accomplishments from my childhood-early-teenage life, pre-high school (no particular order):
1) winning several student of the month awards: even early on, when I had an ugly temperament, my brightness evidently showed.
2) going to the group home: the main accomplishment until I reached college. the group home helped me get to where I am today and it has helped me maintain life-long friendships.
3) winning 6 gold and 1 silver in swimming: this made me prove that I could do something and it helped me get to the point where I could pursue this life-long.
4) honor roll in middle school: once again, proving that I excelled in school all my school career long. I ended middle school with a 3.333 GPA and I did almost as well in the next couple levels. I am smart.
5) hitting two very important shots as the designated shooter in middle-school ball: while no one remembers this but me, these were my first two field goals ever. and that's maybe why I remember it.
6) speaking for the first time about autism: though I had plenty of help and it was nerve-wracking, because I was willing to do it, I was able to make a career as "Ian Bott: Motivational Speaker" as this has gone on for 16 more years and continues to this day.
7) gaining some friends in middle school through basketball and other things that I still have: they were my first true friends I had and I'm lucky to know that through this day, they've got my back. with or without caffeine addiction.
8) confirmation at church: the first of the necessary steps to understand what a Christian meant (Christian intentionally capitalized). this is what I always strive to be, and though it means more today than it did then, I can count it as a big one.
9) staying out of trouble for most of middle school: it's simple: I got away with a lot. but since I'm kind of a sketchy character, I can count this as a big one.
10) cultivating a love for reading, the arts, and sports: this would continue life-long and when I was in middle school and a little before was the first time I was really exposed to this type of learning.