My love for Arsenal

As I've said in previous posts I am an Arsenal fan so I thought since I went to the Emirates this weekend for Arsenal 3-0 victory over Chelsea  I meant as well write a blog about my love for Arsenal Football.

My love for Arsenal begins when I was a little child My first Arsenal game was Manchester City 2005/06 season in the premier league at Arsenal old ground Highbury that season was Arsenal final season at Highbury before they moved to the Emirates Stadium.I only got to visit Highbury once to see an Arsenal match but Highbury was a lovely old ground it had so much history.

My favourite Arsenal Player of all time is Thierry Henry I feel lucky to be   alive seeing an amazing player like Henry play for Arsenal his skills were amazing and some of his goals were out of this world, My favourite goal of Henry, in my opinion, was his solo goal aginst Tottenham in Arsenal home game in 2002 and another one is his goal against Real Madrid at the Santiago Bernabéu Stadium in the 2005/06 champions league season when Arsenal went into the game massive underdogs and they won the game 1-0 and went on to win the tie 1-0. My favourite current Arsenal player is Alexis Sanchez his work rate is amazing and his skills are breathtaking and his footwork is brilliant.

I enjoy going to the Emirates stadium I enjoy walking down Hollway Road from Highbury and Islington station I love when I see the stadium from Hormsey road and Walking past the statues to great Arsenal players Bergkamp,Henry and Adams and the statue to the late great herbert chapman, I try to go to Arsenal game once a month this season .

As I've said I went to the Emirates this Saturday (24th September) was for Arsenal 3-0 victory over Chelsea in a London derby the atmosphere was brilliant I arrived at the ground early and was lucky enough to meet an Arsenal legend in Ian Wright who scored 128 for Arsenal in 221 appearances for Arsenal who was doing media work for BT sports and Stan Collymore who I think was doing commentary for radio I think,
it was 3-0 at half time and I was walking in the concourse near my seat where I got to meet Alex Brooker from channel 4 the Last Leg.

So this is about my love for Arsenal I would just like to thank everyone who has read my blog and for all the nice messages and support I have received you can follow me on social media;
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Asperger syndrome

As I've said in my previous post I have Asperger's syndrome which is a form of Autism according to Wikipedia (Asperger syndrome (AS), also known as Asperger's, is a developmental disorder characterized by significant difficulties in social interaction and nonverbal communication, along with restricted and repetitive patterns of behavior and interests.)

Having a learning disability in primary school wasn't hard socially but when your move to secondary school and in my case a secondary school where I didn't know anyone was very hard I was subject to horrible insults like Idiot,Retard and spastic and being called stupid all time, These insults were hard to take they made not want to go to school, I know I acted differently to other students and having a learning support assistant in some lessons with me singled me out a bit.
Sadly a saying that I had once in the Simpsons I think kids can be cruel was true in my case.

growing up I have chosen to accept that I have a learning disability but I have lived a normal life I went to a normal state school, I apply for normal jobs never getting far then the interview stage the only advantage was sometimes companies had the two ticks scheme (The two ticks scheme  is a recognition given by Jobcentre Plus to employers based in Great Britain who have agreed to take action to meet five commitments regarding the employment, retention, training and career development of disabled employees. It is represented by the two ticks disability symbol (displayed right) that participating organisations are authorised to display.) so that's the only time has a learning disability has come in useful but I've never had successful interview due to my social skills issues.

Having my learning difficulties means I struggle to understand when someone is having a joke with or understand sarcasm or understand people facial expressions or people tone of voice, To be honest, I struggle to understand people's emotions maybe that's my Asperger's or just me as a person who knows.


I like to live my life by routine I like to walk on preferred route and having to do things a certain way or I get confused and I start overthinking things I like fo follow rules and procedures to the letter and I have Highly-focused interests like my interest in Trains and My love for Arsenal Football Club and I have an interest and a small love for  Formula one. You can learn more about Asperger syndrome from
http://www.autism.org.uk/about/what-is/asperger.aspx .

Thank you for reading this blog and will write more on Arsenal my small love for F1 and many more subjects when they come to my head .

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Second post- About Me

My first Blog post was about depression so this second post is about myself as a person, My name Is Jake Humphries I'm 21 years old and I have Asperger's syndrome which is a form of autism which I'll talk about in about in blog post one day.

So I was born in Dagenham in 1995 I lived in Dagenham until September 2006 then we moved to Clacton-On-Sea In Dagenham I went to catholic primary and spent one month I think In a catholic secondary school
which I didn't enjoy When we moved to Clacton I went to a normal state school I was bullied quite a lot in secondary school I had hardly any friends in school, They say your school days are the best days of your life but in my case they were not maybe I will write another blog about my school days one day.

I am an Arsenal Fan I have supported since a very young age my favourite players to ever play for Arsenal is Thierry Henry and Dennis Bergkamp, I had the honour of meeting two of the Arsenal squads the 2005/2006 squad this is a competition thought the junior gunners and the second time was when I won an Arsenal magazine competition and got to meet the 2010/2011 squad . Many Arsenal fans are either Wenger out or Pro Wenger I believe Wenger deserves respect from the Arsenal fans for things he has done for Arsenal football club he has led arsenal to 3 premier league titles 6 FA cups and 6 Community Shields wins and lead Arsenal thought one season unbeaten. I try to go to the Emirates Stadium as much as I can but it's hard to get to Emirates if the trains don't work and going to a football match costs a lot of money.

I have a love for motor racing have been to the British Grand Prix every year since 2013 my favourite driver is Sebastian Vettel I also enjoy world endurance championship which also includes the very famous Le Mans 24 hours race. My love for Formula One began when I watched my first race in 2007 which was the Canadian Grand Prix I collect model Formula One model cars as a hobby.

I have a massive love for politics I joined the Conservative party when I was 17 I try to watch Question time once a week when it's on. I stood for election twice for my student union at college winning both times (one time unopposed and one time facing an election) I enjoyed my time at the student union but it ended when I chose to campaign for Douglas Carswell in the 2014 Clacton-by-election I first meet Douglas Carswell when he was Conservative member of parliament at one of his fish and chips suppers and then had a summer job working for him which was a great experience. when Douglas left the Conservative party and joined UKIP I went with him out of loyalty for Carswell and also had a role in his 2015 general election campaign and I resigned my UKIP membership after the 2015 general election, I will always be grateful for the experience Douglas Carswell gave me. I campaigned for out during this year the United Kingdom European Union membership referendum I didn't campaign on immigration I campaigned for out because I don't believe in the Europen Parliament. I have since rejoined the Conservative Party which I'll explain in detail soon in another blog post.

I have a love for trains and the London Underground I enjoy watching documents about trains when they are on TV I travel by train very regularly because I can't drive, I enjoy travelling by train because I enjoy looking out of the windows when I'm travelling and enjoy when the train passes a depot, On my bucket list is to travel on the Flying Scotsman's train I hope to travel on it one day.

My favourite TV shows is Doctor Who and my favourite actor to play the doctor is David Tennant who played the 10th Doctor, I also enjoy stand up and comedy  and my two favourite comedians are John Bishop who I've meet twice and both times he was lovely to me and always be my favorite comedian and my second favorite comedian is Jack Whitehall who I also meet at a football game Arsenal vs Chelsea I think and I also enjoy watching the last leg with Adam Hills who is also one, my favorite comedians.

Thank you for reading this blog post as time goes on I will write more about my life and things. You can follow me on Instagram @jakehumphries14 and on twitter @jakehumphries1.

My first post-depression

Hello My name Is Jake Humphries and this first post is to talk about me trying to get help and the struggle I faced to get help with my depression and about my time in a mental health ward. This story begins back in May this year I felt depressed a long time before that and I felt and thoughts of committing suicide I once considered jumping in front of train and came very close to doing that only my fear of the pain stopped me from doing this, I went to stay with family in Dagenham which didn’t help [I won’t go into many details why for the respect of my family] . One day after a disagreement with a family member I felt like ending my life once again this time I wrote on all my social media accounts(Snapchat,Facebook,Instagram and Twitter) This lead to worried family member to call the police which lead to me being sectioned on what I believe is called Section 135 mental health act, Being in that Hospital was one of the worst experiences I was locked in a room with not a lot of light people watching you and all I could hear was other members of the public shouting and kicking off and the staff on that ward were not very nice, It felt like I've been arrested and felt that I was a criminal how I was treated by the staff I had my assessment I was let go I sort of lied since I had a ticket to Arsenal Vs Norwich that day so I was released in a place I didn’t know and had only a 1 and a half hours to get to the Emirates Stadium, Luckily I was able to make it to the stadium just in time for the match. A few weeks later after a couple more arguments with family member I was feeling at a very low point I use to walk around the streets of London just to relax and one time I was standing on a bridge in London and thought of jumping into the Thames to end my life at this point I was feeling like the end of my life was near, I then googled ending my life which lead to me clicking a link from the samaritans I then got the tube to where the samaritans that were based in London even when waiting for the tube I just wanted to jump in front of the next train I really don’t know how I didn’t kill myself this time. I arrived at the Samaritans I was really nervous I have picked up the courage to go inside the member of the samaritans was so nice it was nice to speak to someone I left the samaritans feeling better of myself and it was nice to unload my pain and feelings of how I was feeling.My family did all they could but getting help in Dagenham was impossible to get help due to the fact I had no GP in the local area, My family took me to a hospital I was asserted they booked me an appointment with a specialist but they cancelled it at the last minute because I didn’t have a local GP, It was like being offered some hope than having it brutally torn out of my Hands, At this point I felt so low after that point.During the period of the next few weeks I felt so low and at this point I just wanted to end it all so I decided to run away I just wanted to run away from my problems for but I as I found out the hard way , I booked myself into a budget hotel and just hid in the room I was planning to take a medicine and attempt to overdose on any tablets I could get my hands at the last minute I called 111 and got proper help.I was admitted to Hospital First I was asked to sit in a waiting area on Emergency department I was scared and frightened I was then taken to a ward In Clacton called the Peter Bruff Ward the staff on the ward were lovely they were friendly and welcoming I spent nearly a month on the ward at first I was scared it was weird being on the ward at first then it started to feel like home, was discharged on Monday 27th June 2 days before my 21st birthday.This where I end my first blog as time will go on I will write more about my life I will talk about a bit more about my Asperger's my struggle to find a job and my views on life mainly about Politics and football.You can follow me on Instagram @jakehumphries14 and on twitter @jakehumphries1.