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EDGES MAGAZINE Issue |
October 1998 |
SIMON SLEPT
UNDER
BRIDGES
My name is Simon, I was born in Mosside
and I am 18. At the
moment I am living in a hostel. |
Mum chucked me out
because I was getting done by the police; well she thought I was so
she chucked me out. The reason my mum chucked me out at first was
because I went and tried to get my dad done for assault for hitting
me and then she said, "right, go then". I went to this
flat, stayed there and then I got arrested, my mum came to the
interview room and told me definitely not to come back because you
don't please me none - that's it. My intention was to stop at this
flat, but the police came and arrested us; there was nothing in the
flat, it was empty, they arrested us thinking that we was robbing
it, and took us in on suspicion of robbery, but they realised that
we never did anything. They let me out a day later.
I
didn't like school because you had to stay there for 52 weeks a year
and then you could come home for a week; if you were well behaved
you could come home after 32 weeks; this is because I was at
boarding school. I went to boarding school because I'm hyper-active
and when I was young I used to bully and things, so no other school
would take me. Boarding school's alright but the staff would pick on
you for no reason at all, so you'd have to stay there after weeks of
already staying there and then they'd try to make you stay an extra
week, or something like that, and you hadn't done anything wrong.
The reason I went there is because I used to call people names in
school and keep bullying them. At the age of about 11, I stopped
bullying, day school was going to take me but the boarding school
what I was at wouldn't let me go to these day schools. I was 6 when
I started going to boarding school 'til I was 16; from the age of 6
to 11 and then 11 to 16 in boarding schools. My mum brought me out
of boarding school early so I couldn't do my exams or anything. I
was supposed to have a one-to-one tutor but then she said "forget
it" and she chucked me out, and then she brought me back and
she just chucked me out again.
At the moment I just want
a job, look after myself, sort myself out, because you have to pay
rent at these hostels, so I am claiming benefit, but really I want
to be getting my own flat, sorting myself out, but at the moment its
not going that way.
The only exam that I passed when I
was in school was Religious Education because there was only me who
worked at it, everyone would just think its a waste of time, but I
put my head down and got stuck into it and passed it.
I
have been homeless and I've slept on the streets, like under
bridges, fell asleep one time when I was hitchhiking on the streets.
I haven't been on the streets more than a week, or anything like
that. I wouldn't like to do it again
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