L. Smith

Saving Adam L. Smith

My name is Adam. I was trained to keep silent and still. As children around me played games, ?I watched. As they studied and learned, ?I colored pictures. I never knew my parents. I was told I had siblings, but I doubt they knew I existed. The Government became my parent as I bounced among foster homes. I figured this was a normal life. I was kept busy coloring pictures with crayons.

My physical needs were met but my soul ached for nourishment. At some point the normalcy I was born with began to ebb. My future was denied. I was figuratively chained and locked away from the world just as though I had been banished to a dungeon. The ?retarded? label was placed upon me until I found the key to that dungeon, ?or more accurately, the key found me.