I, Saro Bedian, am an Armenian American who grew up in an intelligencia household with two immigrant parents from Syria. I was gifted in academics from an early age and could read full novels by age four. In his teenage years, I developed schizoaffective disorder and was later diagnosed at age twenty. From there, the path of medication was followed with periods interspersed of going off of the meds as well. Now, I am an aspiring writer who wishes to eventually get into novel writing, though at present I am only working on poetry as well as a short story book.