Michael

March 11, 2009

Dan Collins told me about You’ve Gotta Have Friends and suggested I come in.  I expected that I would meet nice, friendly people and people who are challenged.

People are friends here and also are never upset or mean to others.  One difference in my life is the Men’s Group where I feel happy all the time.  The Monday evening book chat is O.K.  I have more friends because I come here.  Allan is a good, loving person.  He can be a little happy, a little sad.  He invited me for supper and brought me back for the book chat that evening.

The best thing about You’ve Gotta Have Friends is that I’m still happy and I’m still excited about being here.

To make You’ve Gotta Have Friends a best experience we could listen to music.  People could do a lot of things, work on computers, do crafts, watch TV.

Things that have changed for me:  I go to University now.  I look forward to coming here.  There is no violence in me any more because I don’t talk loud any more and I press myself to talk softly.