I think I'll give this a go too. It's been really interesting to read everyone else's!
I'm Niall, and I'm 18. I live in a Elm Park, Havering which is a boring London suburb. I've been here all my life and it's a nice place really I guess.
When I was 5, my parents divorced and my Mum went to live in Italy for 6 years. I kind of hated going over there to see her, not only because it meant being cut off from home and everything that was familiar but also because I hated her new boyfriend that she lived with. Though he never used to hit her, he was often verbally abusive to her, which is something that's stuck in my head to this day. I also used to speak Italian quite fluently when I was little, thanks to all the time I spent there. But because I never practised it when I came back home, I've sort of lost it all. It's a shame really.
Eventually she left him, and after a short return to Britain, my Mum lived in Ireland for another 6 years. That was... better, but having a parent a country away didn't make things easy really. Recently though, she's moved back to Britain for good, and I don't think it's quite sunk in yet. I have this odd feeling and I'm not sure how I feel over it all. I'm happy of course, but simultaneously it's so alien to me I'm not sure what I think about it.
Other than all that, I'm not terribly interesting. Eventually I want to be an author. I know that's a bit aspirational so I want to try and get into video game writing before that as an
actual career, but one day I really hope that a book I've written does become a bestseller. It's a big dream of mine.
So to try and achieve all of that, i'm going to be (hopefully) studying English at University come September. It's always been one of my favourite subjects, and my grades for it at A-Level have been far better than anything else I've ever achieved in any other subject. Hopefully I'll get the grades to get into Uni! I also love to read, mainly because of the fact that in Italy there was no English entertainment when I was little. Immersing myself into any book is something I love to do.
I also have really bad anxiety problems. I have anxiety attacks when I go out and I'm positive I suffer from a mixture of agoraphobia and social anxiety disorder. I'm supposed to be entering into therapy for it all shortly which should hopefully get rid of it all. It's just such an irritating thing though, I mean the anxiety keeps me from going out with my friends and stuff and It's just horrible.
I love to travel too, and thus far I've been quite lucky. My parents used to go to Florida quite often when I was small, so my brother and I have been at least 7 times each. Since then I've been to all sorts of different places, but my favourites will always be Florida and the trip to China I took with my Mum a few years ago. Some day I want to visit Japan (and learn Japanese too), South Korea, Hainan (in China), Hong Kong, Moscow, and take a massive road trip across the west coast of the US.