Aaron Bowers was born in '78 in Green Bay, Wisconsin. For the first eight years of his life, he lived in the small town of Seymour. In 1986, he moved to Hobart, a suburb of Green Bay. In the summer of ‘88, doctors diagnosed him with Tourette Syndrome, Dyslexia, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, and Attention Deficit Disorder. He's always had a really hard time in school and it's been a challange for him to explain his tourettes to others. He graduated from Pulaski High School in June of 1997. He currently resides in downtown Green Bay. He's the General Manager of Reading Connections Inc., a driver for Lamers' Medical Transport, a chaplain at the Brown County Jail and Juvenile Detention Center, a volunteer for the self-help program at the Green Bay Correctional Institution, a tour guide for the Green Bay Police Department, a member of the Crime Prevention Association of Brown County, a volunteer for the city's Speedwatch Program, and a patient transport volunteer for Saint Vincent Hospital's emergency room and operating room. Between 1996 and 2007, he's volunteered as a fire fighter for the Village of Hobart, a mentor for Volunteers in Probation, and a United States Coast Guard Auxiliary search and rescue member.

MY BLOGS
Top ten list of ways that prisons are like schools
10) A vehicle with red flashing lights picks you up and takes you to a place you'd rather not go to.
9) You're always looking over your shoulder because someone wants to hurt you if you don't have a lot of friends.
8) You have to shower with others of the same gender.
7) You need a hall pass to leave a room and you better be wearing your picture ID badge.
6) The day is broken down into 7 periods.
5) The hallways are heavely guarded just in case someone tries to escape.
4) If you do manage to escape, they'll send the police out to find you.
3) It's always way too easy to get into trouble.
2) You're constantly told what to do and when to do it.
1) When they finally let you out, you're put on house arrest, also known as curfew.

Domestic Violence
We put my neice on the lap of the Santa Clause at the museum. She looked up at him with those adorable, optomistic, blue eyes.

"So, what do you want for Christmas?"

She didn't hesitate for a second.

"I want daddy to stop hurting mommy!"

After hearing this unusual request, he paused for a momment before answering.

"Well honey, that's not something I can bring you in the back of my sleigh, but I can certainly pray about it. I will pray for you!"

I wanted to be the heroic uncle who jumped in there and made everything better, but what do you do when your abused family member doesn't want your help?

Living with Tourette Syndrome
Want to tick off a room full of people? Walk in and scratch your fingernails across a chalkboard. People will tense up, shrug their shoulders, move their arms out in front of them, and close their eyes really tight. If you keep scratching the chalkboard, they may do this over and over and over again! Before long, someone would jump up and scream, "STOP IT!" The people in the room might feel that you're out to get them or you just want to make them misserable because you think it's fun.

What if there was no one scratching their fingernails across a chalkboard, people just felt like there was, and they were acting accordingly.

Welcome to the world of Tourette Syndrome!

My 6:00 Crisis
I remember getting home from school every day around 3:30. I'd watch some T.V. and then go to bed, knowing that none of my homework was done. I'd wake up at 6:00, depressed and hostile, eat dinner by myself because I slept too long and think about how I had to go to school the next day and put up with all of the crap I delt with every other day. I'd think of ways to get into serious trouble at school so that the cops could haul me off and get me out of my day to day routine.

I'll always feel the stress, pain, and emotions of my 6:00 crisis.