Draw My Life - Thinknoodles

hey everyone my name is Justin and I'm gonna do it draw my life I've been pretty nervous about this because I can't really draw and I didn't think I really had interesting or inspirational story at least is not as interesting as some of those I'm seeing on YouTube but anyways here we go I was born on May 30th 1977 in a little state called Texas both of my parents have three brothers so I have six uncles and more cousins than I can count when I was about two years old my parents gave me this new toy to play with called a sister I really loved having a sister when I was younger but we didn't get along so well in high school right after my sister was born we got our first dog her name was Missy and I don't really remember her very well because she ran away when I was six or seven but I do remember looking for her every day for weeks around the neighborhood after school my sister and I didn't find out until about five years ago that my parents actually gave her away to another family in early 1981 when I was around 3 my dad brought home one of the newest things out there a personal computer from Atari it came with a cassette tape deck to load programs if you guys even know what that is my dad was convinced it was gonna change the world and thought it was important for my sister and I to grow up with computers throughout my childhood he was always getting us new computers like the Apple 2e and the Apple two gs when they first came out and it turns out he was right his fascination with computers have passed on to me and it's one of the only reasons I'm here right now making videos for you guys the earliest thing I can remember with clarity is when I was four we were visiting my grandparents and I woke up in the middle of the night and I couldn't breathe I felt like I was suffocating my parents rushed me to the emergency room and the doctors told them it was bronchiolitis which is really common in young children and they sent us home we didn't have the internet or WebMD to look up symptoms and there was no way of looking it up so we just had to listen to what they said I was still having difficulty breathing and my mom talked to some of her friends about me and heard about a condition called asthma which would then shape much of my young life she took me to a pediatric allergist who diagnosed with chronic severe asthma as soon as we walked in the door I got a ton of shots and allergy tests and all this other stuff and we left with a handful of prescriptions for inhalers daily medicine and something called a nebulizer I called it the Machine because I don't think I can pronounce nebulizer at the time but I had to use it three times a day with a tube and a mask like you'd see in hospitals but a few days after that my mom remembers me saying something right after using my machine I said mom I feel better and she realized that I'd really never known what it was like to breathe normally we spent the next few years in and out of the emergency room to the point where the emergency rooms staff knew us by name I was getting weekly allergy shots for all the things I was allergic to that were setting off my asthma attack except for cats and I'm still really allergic to them I was always embarrassed by my condition and any time I was wheezing I'd make an excuse to go to the bathroom so I could use my inhaler without anyone seeing me in fifth grade we moved to this country all the way across the world that I'd never even heard of Indonesia and we had to get passports and visas and lots of shots and I was super excited so we moved across the world and I started this new school and I didn't know anyone I was a pretty sensitive kid so I was kind of sad over the next couple of years my asthma improved and I didn't need the Machine anymore I met three really great friends we did everything together but as we got older they started going out for sports I was still a short skinny kid and everyone else was growing up taller around me and I kind of got left behind the doctors told me I'd eventually grow but all the asthma medication had delayed my growth spurt and at the end of tenth grade we had to back to the US when my dad's job transferred him back to Northern California academics had always come easy for me and I end up coasting through high school socially I was the new kid from Indonesia and I didn't have a lot of friends so I spent a lot of time in the computer lab messing about because I grown up around computers my whole life I met a couple of people there who became my really good friends and we end up spending all our free time ups and no good and got suspended for a week after ending up in a pretty bad situation at a school-sponsored event during my senior year I had my final asthma attack which landed me in the hospital I was so stressed out by the SATs and college applications that my parents actually picked me up after taking the SATs and we went straight to the emergency room so I could bring it again I did okay on the SATs though and ended up college bound majoring in Computer Engineering with a brand new car College was awesome everyone started with a clean slate in the same situation so you get a fresh start and everyone's looking for new friends so I wasn't the skinny kid with asthma or the new kid from Indonesia anymore I was just regular normal like everyone else unfortunately the laziness from high school followed me to college and let's just say I needed a little bit of extra time to graduate after the first semesters grade report but there were parties and I learned how to serve and we drove down to Tijuana a few times and my roommate was in a band I had a great time shortly after my first semester at my parents and sister moved overseas again so it was just me left in California in college I was sat at first but it was great cuz I'd visit them in places like Peru and Colombia during my school breaks just before College started back up for my second year I met my roommates cousin from New York she'd crazy long hair and we all went to Universal Studios and row rides and watch beavis and butt-head do America and little did I know at the time I just met the girl is gonna marry I applied myself a bit more in college and my sister followed me to the same university and we became really good friends again I got my first girlfriend graduated from college and June of 2000 got a job working for Cisco Systems in Santa Clara it was my dream job and I was excited and anxious and scared all at the same time and the youngest person around and I didn't really have a lot of friends after a few months of doing my own thing I got a call from that girl who added Matt long ago in Universal Studios she said she was coming to town in a few months to visit family and wanted to look me up because she'd heard I was in the area we immediately connected on a different level than either of us had with anyone else but I lived in California and she lived in New York against all odds we decided to try long-distance and see how it went I flew back and forth between the west coast and the East Coast every month or two and she started college in Boston then something really scary happened I flew from Boston to California on the last American Airlines flight on September 10th 2001 the next morning I woke up and I realized how close I was to being on one of those doomed flights and I decided right there to move to Boston to be with her I still have the boarding pass stuff and it still gives me chills when I look at it while she was in college I got a master's degree in business and she graduated with really good grades and got into Medical School back in New York after moving back to New York we got a Golden Retriever puppy together and she's the most amazing dog I've ever had I wasn't ready to reenter corporate America yet so I started selling stuff on eBay and came across this stuffed animal called webkinz a friend and I decided to start up a blog in a forum about webkinz to see if anyone would visit and the popularity exploded overnight over the next few years I continued building blogs and forums and my wife graduated medical school and we got married barefoot on the beach I finally found YouTube in December of 2011 and I originally started my channel as a complement to my blogs and websites but after posting a few videos of my voice in them the channel direction changed to be me the skinny kid with asthma I was surprised and excited and and people told me I'd be big on YouTube and I didn't believe them but my channel grew and grew and it's still going and it's still growing and it's surprising me everyday I've met so many people and had so much fun and meeting and interacting with all of you I'm excited every morning the way they wake up and I'm happy all day long I can't imagine doing anything else that would make me more happy or more fulfilled than what I do right now and I owe it all to you guys my fans I wish I could express in a words how thankful I am to each and every one of you but it's impossible and all I can say is thank you thank you from the bottom of my heart [Music]

Channel: Thinknoodles

Views: 9,853,153

Rating: 4.9417443 out of 5

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Id: PM7zAj3kTok

Length: 9min 26sec (566 seconds)

Published: Fri Aug 02 2013