Jason | New Lynn
I’m Jason. I live in Auckland. New Lynn is where I’m based at the moment, but I haven’t really got a home. I’m sort of, um being moved around at the moment, but I’ve had a fairly good upbringing. I wasn’t abused or anything.
Me. I’m important. If I don’t class myself as important, no-one else will give me the time of day. And just being alive and appreciating every day for what it’s worth, and not taking things for granted, and giving people time and space, and part of me, so that they might trade, you know, whatever they call goods. I’m not talking about money. I’m talking about sharing their feelings and their life expectations.
I want a simple life. I just want to be a, what is it? A John Doe? Just a normal citizen. I just want a wife and a family. That’s my main concern is, getting a stable family environment that I can call mine. Proud. I’d be proud of them, not of me, but I’d be proud of them.
When mental health questioned me about how I stay in reality, and I just told them, I just do what’s real – it really hit home. I gave them their own answer back in another form. It was really defining, because they finally accepted me for being a real person, and not with something that they imagined or dreamt up and they came up with all these assumptions, and they thought that it was my problem, but all the time, I’m the solution to it.
My head? I can’t remember. All I remember is waking up, and going, I’m alright just throw a blanket on me, and they say, no you’re going to the hospital, because half your side is paralysed, and I sort of thought that I would have got the fast way out, but not to be. All I remember is waking up on the floor and someone saying that they assaulted me with their fists, but obviously this is more dangerous than a fist. It was more dangerous than a first.
