Post by lottii on Oct 10, 2010 15:41:30 GMT -6
Full Name: Harry North
Nick Names: Harry
Student or Staff: Student
House (if student): Yellow Ribbon House
Age: 15 years old
Ethnicity: White American
Gender: Male
Physical Description: A slight boy, thin to the extreme and standing at around 5'6" tall, he weighs around 8 stone on arriving at Blue Ridge, although he hopes to lose around a stone. He has long, blond hair which he wear deliberately covering his face, and equally covering his medium-blue eyes.
Personality: Harry is a painfully shy, disturbed young boy. He has never made a good friend, but if he did he would be extremely loyal. He suffers from a range of disorders, most obviously Selective Mutism. This isn't being silent by choice, he find himself unable to speak in certain situations. In Harry's case, this is basically around people. He is not a Mute, he is perfectly capable of speaking, and if he thinks no one is around he can be heard talking softly to animals and sometimes himself. Closely linked to this is Avoidant Personality Disorder, of which he suffers a mild form. It causes Harry to be extremely anxious around people, hypersensitivity to rejection and criticism, self-loathing, mistrust and using fantasies as a means of escapism. Add to this a strong Pyromania disorder, and suspected Anorexia Nervosa.
Background: Harry was born in New York to two drug addicted parents. His mother continued taking drugs during her pregnancy and she was not intending to give the baby up for adoption. Social Services took Harry when he was born, his mother was clearly unfit, unwilling to even attempt quitting drugs. Newborn babies are almost always adopted easily, but Harry had suspected learning disabilities due to his mother's drug addiction, and he was born at a time when lots of babies happened to be for adoption. As it turned out, he had no disabilities as a result of this, but he spent his life being passed around foster homes and care homes.
His first foster home lasted the longest, he was in a care home until he was 4 years old. Although this is rather rare - babies normally found foster homes as a matter of emergency - this has often been suggested as why he never started to speak properly. The foster home he went to was a married couple who owned a couple of horses and ponies for pleasure riding. Harry spent three years here, learning how to ride and care for horses in the process, only leaving when the wife fell pregnant despite thinking she could not have children.
After a few intermittent years in care and short term foster placements, where he continued to ride, he was somewhat talent spotted by a family who ran a top show jumpers yard. At 10 years old they took him onto their yard and into their house, but not really part of the family. They home schooled him so that he could spend the majority of the day riding five or six different ponies and the chores that go with it. It taught him a lot, but its not the best way to spend a childhood. Harry lived there two years, before they decided he was too large for the little ponies, and they had no shortage of riders for bigger ones.
Back in care, the last long-term foster home he was in was from when he was 14, for a year. Harry found every moment of his life controlled exactly, which is when I suppose what you would call his rebellion started. Setting fire to things, and refusing to eat. The fire setting stopped pretty soon after he left that family, but the restriction continues.
When his care home of two months shut down, social workers decided boarding school to be the best place for Harry. They allowed him to choose where to go - within reason - and he chose Blue Ridge because it allowed animals. He brought a horse on the way to Blue Ridge, several of his foster parents had owned horses so he was happy around them and able to talk to them.
Misc.: Harry is a talented rider, although he dislikes riding in front of people. He could compete at the top caliber of showjumping, and I mean the top, given the right horse.
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Nick Names: Harry
Student or Staff: Student
House (if student): Yellow Ribbon House
Age: 15 years old
Ethnicity: White American
Gender: Male
Physical Description: A slight boy, thin to the extreme and standing at around 5'6" tall, he weighs around 8 stone on arriving at Blue Ridge, although he hopes to lose around a stone. He has long, blond hair which he wear deliberately covering his face, and equally covering his medium-blue eyes.
Personality: Harry is a painfully shy, disturbed young boy. He has never made a good friend, but if he did he would be extremely loyal. He suffers from a range of disorders, most obviously Selective Mutism. This isn't being silent by choice, he find himself unable to speak in certain situations. In Harry's case, this is basically around people. He is not a Mute, he is perfectly capable of speaking, and if he thinks no one is around he can be heard talking softly to animals and sometimes himself. Closely linked to this is Avoidant Personality Disorder, of which he suffers a mild form. It causes Harry to be extremely anxious around people, hypersensitivity to rejection and criticism, self-loathing, mistrust and using fantasies as a means of escapism. Add to this a strong Pyromania disorder, and suspected Anorexia Nervosa.
Background: Harry was born in New York to two drug addicted parents. His mother continued taking drugs during her pregnancy and she was not intending to give the baby up for adoption. Social Services took Harry when he was born, his mother was clearly unfit, unwilling to even attempt quitting drugs. Newborn babies are almost always adopted easily, but Harry had suspected learning disabilities due to his mother's drug addiction, and he was born at a time when lots of babies happened to be for adoption. As it turned out, he had no disabilities as a result of this, but he spent his life being passed around foster homes and care homes.
His first foster home lasted the longest, he was in a care home until he was 4 years old. Although this is rather rare - babies normally found foster homes as a matter of emergency - this has often been suggested as why he never started to speak properly. The foster home he went to was a married couple who owned a couple of horses and ponies for pleasure riding. Harry spent three years here, learning how to ride and care for horses in the process, only leaving when the wife fell pregnant despite thinking she could not have children.
After a few intermittent years in care and short term foster placements, where he continued to ride, he was somewhat talent spotted by a family who ran a top show jumpers yard. At 10 years old they took him onto their yard and into their house, but not really part of the family. They home schooled him so that he could spend the majority of the day riding five or six different ponies and the chores that go with it. It taught him a lot, but its not the best way to spend a childhood. Harry lived there two years, before they decided he was too large for the little ponies, and they had no shortage of riders for bigger ones.
Back in care, the last long-term foster home he was in was from when he was 14, for a year. Harry found every moment of his life controlled exactly, which is when I suppose what you would call his rebellion started. Setting fire to things, and refusing to eat. The fire setting stopped pretty soon after he left that family, but the restriction continues.
When his care home of two months shut down, social workers decided boarding school to be the best place for Harry. They allowed him to choose where to go - within reason - and he chose Blue Ridge because it allowed animals. He brought a horse on the way to Blue Ridge, several of his foster parents had owned horses so he was happy around them and able to talk to them.
Misc.: Harry is a talented rider, although he dislikes riding in front of people. He could compete at the top caliber of showjumping, and I mean the top, given the right horse.
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