OK, so who am I? I am a non-generic 13-year-old in two places on the autism spectrum. My name is Matthew McLewis, but I have a weird life: I live in Nuvema Town, I have two friends, Cheren and Bianca, as for who I live with, that's my divorced mom and two OBNOXIOUS sisters. It stinks that my nice third one moved out and lives in Aspertia. I want to do something that many autistic people do very rarely: I have wanted to go on a Pokémon journey through Unova. I hate not leaving the rural town that often, and Wii U has been losing its charm. If there's one thing I've wanted to do, it's to go on a journey where I can meet many interesting people and feel what it means to bond with Pokémon. I have no idea why not many people like me don't to this, it might be just statistics. But I have gotten a journal to record exactly what happens. That starts with today: the day I had started my journey. I had actually slept until 10 AM, when I got woken up by Bianca laughing. Well, I was surprised by them being right next to me, and I asked, "Did I sleep that late? And what are you laughing at?" Bianca said, "You sleep talking! Was it something about Andrew Johnson and your bacon?" Then Cheren said, "Honestly, Bianca. It's not nice when you do things like that. Let him get out of his shiny pajamas and get prepared." Yes, I took a shower, brushed my teeth, making sure to get not just the braces, and I even had breakfast in 30 seconds flat. So, I asked after that, "So why are you here and not waiting at your own homes?" Cheren said, "Your mom invited us since the starters were delivered to your house. The Poké Balls are actually in that shiny neon capsule, under your periodic table." Bianca then asked, "So who gets to choose first?" Then I stated firmly, "Cheren's been telling me he'll go last, and it's rude what you did. So let me go first?" Bianca then sighed, "OK, I deserve that. I'll even let you open the capsule!" So I opened the capsule to find three Poké Balls and a note from the professor:

"Hello and thank you for starting your journey. You will naturally have to get a starter so you can begin, so here are the three choices that Unova trainers get when they begin. There is the Water starter Oshawott on the left, a balanced choice. In the middle is the Grass starter Snivy, who is very popular. On the right is the Fire starter Tepig, who seems to be very odd. Choose fairly!"

Well, the moment I read sentence 4 of that paragraph, I instantly made my choice for Snivy. Bianca then said, "Well, it's a good thing you picked Snivy." Then, after a pause, she said, "Okay, Cheren, here's your Tepig." Cheren was like, "OK, that's random, are you just saying you picked Oshawott?" Bianca admitted she was. We were all excited, and then I'm like, "So now what?" Bianca then asked, "Matt, you want a battle?" Then Cheren said, "Whoa, are you sure you want to mess up his room? They're only level 5, but they could still hit hard." Then I said, "Come on, what could possibly go wrong? I control my Asperger's and ADHD quite well." Cheren just sighed and said, "Just don't whine if your room is all messed up as a result." So Bianca and I began. They only knew Leer, which cuts an opponent's defense, and the basic Tackle attack. Bianca just kept telling Oshawott to use Tackle a LOT. I yelled, "Snivy, use Leer!" This cycle repeated. About a minute later, Snivy looked only OK, and I said, "Now finish it with Tackle!" Snivy used Tackle and defeated Oshawott in ONE HIT. Bianca was like, "Amazing strategy, Matt! You really caught me off guard!" Then Cheren yelled, "Hey, listen; I've called you 7 times!" Then Bianca said, "Why are you—" She stopped as she realized what I did at the same time: Our battle nearly entirely messed my room! I was all, "Holy Ronald Reagan. It's almost completely a mess! I love how the fragile stuff is still intact, such as that Wii U." Cheren started slow-clapping. I think he's being sarcastic. Then I asked, "Well, how about a battle with someone who wants to battle calmly? I happily accepted, let Cheren and began. I tried to employ the same strategy before, but unfortunately Cheren got a lucky critical hit and I had to tell Snivy to tackle early. She missed, and actually took 1 HP of damage from hitting the Wii U (which still remained 100% intact!) and became unable to battle as a result! We actually got a good laugh from that, even Snivy. And wouldn't you know, my sisters came in from the next room to mock my skills (but I had the last laugh; I didn't give a hydronium ion about two girls with straight D+'s) and congratulate Cheren only. I just said, "Too bad, I'll disprove ALL the theories!" We all went downstairs and my mom greeted us. She explained, "I know what happened up there. I'll clean up the room AND give Nancy and Claudia hardcore studying. This will be hard for me, but I know it'll be a win-win situation for us and Pokémon. Now, Cheren, Bianca, tell your parents you're soon going to go to the lab.

So I waited, but when Cheren came back, he said, "Something is holding up Bianca. You may want to check it out." When I did, I found Bianca and her dad were in an argument. Then her mom chimed in and said, "All your arguments I disagree with. Matt's autism and ADHD are not contagious, he's much more mature than an average person with them, and he'll be a good influence, like Cheren, let her go to the lab." I never wanted to see that, but we all went to the lab. That's where Professor Juniper greeted us. She said hello and gave us a lengthy explanation on what Pokémon Trainers might do. Some catch Pokémon for research, others attempt the Pokémon League. I thought about being a 29-71 mix of the two. Then Juniper said, "Now, this is when we present you with your Trainer's card, a Poké Ball belt, and the eGear, a mix of the Xtranciever and Pokédex." She showed and gave me a nice dark green one. I remembered that E-flat chord that plays upon starting up. However, mine took longer, and when it finally booted, the G in the chord was flat. I sighed, "Why did that just happen?" Right afterwards, as if answering my question, a weird face appeared on the screen resembling John Q. Adams with error codes under it popped up. It was bricked. Juniper said, "Um… I've getting complaints about that. According to my statistics, one of every 256 has that problem, weird face and everything. There's someone in Striaton City who can fix that, where thankfully, the first Pokémon Gym is. But could you please bear with the bricked eGear?" I replied, "Fine… But this sucks a little!" Juniper said, "At least we don't show you how to catch Pokémon outside, because the complaints got reduced when this video was made here and became used even in Hoenn and Kalos." When we saw the video, it had a man in a grayscale tie-dye shirt and green shorts. He said, "Hey there, trainers being born, my name's Emile, and I've beaten leagues in four nations and even the former Champion of Kanto. Twice. Getting anywhere near that would require you to find some 'mons. How to do that, you say? Well, as our cameraman Tim hopefully allows himself to even get close enough, our notetaker John will tell you exactly what I'm doing." This got us laughing mad. The Emile guy continued, "So, there are many places you can find Pokémon such as tall grass, which has more Pokémon if it's darker, dense sand, any dungeony area or—" What made us really laugh was at that point, Tim said, "Hey, look to the left, it's a distraction!" Then John pushed Emile into nearby water, with everyone, both the guys in the video, and us, laughing out loud, when Emile yelled, "Or, if you have a Pokémon which can surf, the deep water's a good place to look. What the heck, you guys!" Then Tim said, "Watch out Emile! There's a pink Frillish behind you!" Then Emile said, "Fine! A wild Frillish appears or whatever!" He sent out a Misdreavus and John narrated what he did. "He orders his Misdreavus to use Psybeam to weaken it a little. Since Frillish is weakened now, he can use a Poké Ball. No, wait, that's a somewhat more accurate Great Ball. Pokémon that have much strength left can easily break out, so since Frillish is only kind of weakened, he uses a Ball with more strength. One, two, three… YES! HE GOT IT!" Then this strange video ended. And Juniper said, "That's a bit of a rough sketch, but you get the gist of it, right?" We all said yes and Juniper said, "Now, you start for REAL. Head on to Route 1."