A Special Friend

[Guest guest]

When I think about my special friend, I think about my friend Greg.

He always been there for me and he is the first one that I contact

when I need someone to talk to or to tell him some news, either by

phone, Facebook, MySpace, or occasionally by AIM.

I first met Greg in college at a diversity event at our residence

hall. He was putting on a disability awareness simulation of a person

reciting the color of what the color words are, not the color word

itself, and I had no problems with it. For example, if the word

yellow is in blue, the person says blue, not yellow. He mentioned

that there are people that have a hard time with it, since both parts

used different parts of the brain. During our conservation, he and I

mentioned about our two disabilities, he with dyslexia and me with

autism. Greg was the first person that I told that I am autistic

during the first meeting and before then, I did not tell anyone

during the first meeting. He did invite me to come to the next

Students for Disability Awareness meeting, in which I attended and

later became the public relations chair. If it was not for Greg, I

would not even been involved with SDA.

Ever since that day, he and I became good friends. I do not know if I

will call him my best friend, but he is a special friend to me.

Through Greg, I got to know many of his Sigma Chi brothers and I

became friends with them. I even presented my autism program to their

chapter and afterwords, Greg gave me a tour of the house. Whenever I

wrote a note on Facebook or gave something to Sigma Chi, Greg shared

it to them during their chapter. I also mailed them some pictures

that I took to them and I am pretty sure that Greg will share them to

his Sigma Chi brothers. I even made him a collage of the pictures

that I have of him, including the one in a Trovola pose while he

was wearing a 1970s era suit.

When I told him that I was graduating from college, he was upset. He

asked me, " Why do you have to graduate? " When I asked him why he was

upset, he said, " I need to find a new PR chair. " I guess that he felt

that way because SDA is losing a valuable member of their executive

board. In my memory book that I passed around just before graduation,

he wrote in there, " It has been an honor working with you on SDA and

having a great friend like you. Congratulations on graduating and I

hope for nothing but the best for the future. " After the college

graduation ceremony, he was the first person that I called and told

him that I am finally graduated and to tell the guys thanks for the

support.

Greg always been there for me, ever since the first meeting. He and I

accepted each other, I have no problems with him being dyslexic and

he has no problems with me being autistic. Greg is an important

person in my life and the most special friend that I could ever ask

for.