Joey Arnold

Here is the Biography of Joseph Scott Arnold, the Original Oatmeal.

 

Year By Year.

4PM, Sunday, the 26th of May 2013
Church in district 11, HCM, VN
By Joey Arnold, the Original Oatmeal
Summary of my life, year by year

My mother, Marilyn Kathleen Arnold (Morehead), gave birth to me (Joey Arnold) at around 6 AM PST on a Monday or Tuesday, the 11th of February 1985 at the Tualitin Hospital in Forest Grove, Oregon (OR), United States of America (USA). I was born partly deaf. I was born with some birth defects the the Treacher Collins Syndrome. My mother got me glasses when I was around 8 months old.

As a family, we went to the coast (to Warrenton, OR USA) to see my aunt Karen (sister of my mother) & uncle Jim Williams (husband of Karen) when I was around 1 years old around 1986. We have this tradition of seeing them annually or as often as we could.

As a car was rushing towards me in 1988 when I was 3 years old, my brother (Richard Schuyler Arnold) pulled me out of the way. Unfortunately, my mother was hit by the car which broke one of her arms. It was around 7 PM. We were returning home after viewing my older sister’s (Katie Jean Arnold) performance in gymnastics at a gym in Forest Grove, OR USA. An older married couple took us to their house as the ambulance ran off with mom. Me & Rick played hide-and-seek until our father came to take us home.

My siblings made fun of me because I couldn’t talk well, since I was partly deaf. They joked that I must be from another planet, which made me think that I really was an alien.

I asked Christ to save me when I was 5 years old in 1990 on a Sunday after church. Since my brother saved my life before in 1988, I knew I could trust him to save it again. I asked my brother to lead me in the prayer since my mom was busy with my younger baby sister, Crystal Ann Arnold.

I started drawing a bunch of indians.