User:Onur h
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Hi! My name is Onur Kerim Hassan. I was born on November 4th 1991. I am a British-born, Turkish student currently studying at Mill Hill School.
I was born in Newham General Hospital, Hackney, London.
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[edit] Origins
I have a Turkish mother and a Turkish Cypriot father. However, my father has roots linking back to Izmir,Turkey, although he was born in the United Kingdom after his parents had migrated there. On my mother's side of the family, my grandparents were born in Macedonia, as it was ruled by the Ottomans when they were born. However, when the Ottoman Empire began to collapse, many Ottoman Turks fled back to what is now the Republic of Turkey. I also have Afghan roots linking to my great-grandfather on my mother's side
[edit] Biography
[edit] Early childhood
I was brought up speaking Turkish, but at the age of two, I spent months of almost complete silence. I was seen by many doctors, and at first they thought that I had Autistic Spectrum Disorder. However, in the end they found out that I didn't have it, as they later found that I just had speech problems and severe shyness. The doctors told my parents that I should see a speech therapist regularly, to improve my speech and my confidence.
At the age of four, I started going to Eldon Infant School. Because of my 'problems', though, I never spoke unless I needed to, and rarely took part in class activities or discussions. Once a week I would see a speech therapist, usually during school hours.
I continued to go to this school until the age of 7, when my parents decided that I needed private education, to improve my discipline and intelligence. So they sent me off to Salcombe Preparatory School.
[edit] Late childhood
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[edit] Trivia
- My first word was "hungry", but not because I was hungry myself. It was because I lived near a pub called Hungry Horse in Edmonton, so I said my second word straight afterwards : horse!
- I LOVE CHOCOLATE!
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