I hope you, my peers, don’t think me derisory for suggesting there might be some inordinate prominence of nagging predicaments you’ve recently experienced, but – just in case that’s the case – I want to hear your problems. Sound absurd?

Well, let me draw you a picture with this 10-point typeface that might spur a little more acknowledgeable interest.

I’ve been around, seen things. I spent the last five of my teenage years in the California foster care system, and through the 15 families I lived with, I learned a lot about people. I lived with an elderly couple that ran a foster child farm – greedy bastards, stockpiling kids and pocketing the state support, the money-per-pop they received for housing nine wards of the court. Now, I don’t know what happened to most of my foster brothers or sisters, but I do know, thanks to my social worker, that most children in the California foster care system don’t, a lot of the time, do so well. But I prevailed, because I understood the necessity of an individual’s need to improve their situation.

I only met my birthing sack – sorry, I mean my “mother” – once, when I was 7. So, I know what it’s like to have kin gaps, but I also know what to do to fill those spaces. And for those students who have issues with siblings, I’m cursed – or blessed, depending on your view of the perks or drawbacks brothers and sisters – with quite a few.

I was mocked in junior high and high school because I had a lazy eye that was beyond my control to fix. Basically, I know what it’s like to be a little different or misunderstood.
I was once beaten up by a small-town gang and had my balls kicked so far into my pelvis I thought I was going to puke tadpoles and, when I was five, I was dragged by a car for a quarter of a mile – hell, I could see my right kneecap for at least a month, and my evil stepmother didn’t even take me to the hospital. I guess you could say I have a good idea what adversity really means.

Parents (I’ve had lots), relationships (I’ve been married and divorced), school (attended quite a few already) or religion (I understand the need for god, but I also understand the other side’s perception of organized religion) – I will try, no matter the subject, to give the best advice possible. Besides, sometimes it’s just better to get an outside perspective.
With your letters, we might be able to shed light on issues that other students might be curious about. So, if you will, consider Asking Jason.