I am Matthew Roomsburg an employee of Murphy USA. I was born March 27, 1992 at St. Vincent Doctors Hospital just west of downtown Little Rock, AR. I was born at 8 pounds and 16 ounces and was healthy. I developed normally in the first 6 months of life and then began to behave differently. At 18 months, I was diagnosed with autism by Dr. Judy Johnson, an independent practitioner in West Little Rock at the time. I then went to the early intervention program at Arkansas Easter Seals in Little Rock where I received intensive speech, occupational, and physical therapies during my preschool years. I couldn't talk at that time so I needed a delta talker that served as my voice. Dr. Johnson and other doctors in whom I was under the care of at the time said I might nit ever be able to walk or talk, but at 3 years of age, I started walking and talking on my own without the needing assistance. Though my balance was really unstable at that time I had to use a walker for a short time in preschool until I could stand up on my own with little assistance. I also wore glasses for a short period of time after I had eye alignment surgery to get my eye both in the same position. After graduation from preschool I then went to kindergarten at Harris Elementary school in North Little Rock. I was in the self-contained autistic class. The public school setting wasn't working out for me so when I started 1st grade I went to this private school called Access Schools. I started 1st grade there in 1998. There I continued receiving intensive speech, occupational and physical therapy. I also met some friends and was there for 6 years. I moved late 2004 to Baton Rouge, LA. Because my dad got a job as assistant superintendent at the Louisiana School for the Visually Impaired I wasn't in school for the first two month after we moved there. My mom finally found a private school named Lake Sherwood School which had three special needs classes for students with developmental and intellectual disabilities. I started there in the upper multi level class. My teacher Sharon Moore was real nice and i was there 3 years until the school owners no longer could afford the cost of running the school. This was when I went to a public middle school for 2 years. I was in the self-contained autistic class at Kenilworth Middle School. My second year I was in the inclusion which didn't work out for me. Then I was put back into private school and the school formerly known as Lake Sherwood reopened as Greater Baton Rouge Hope Academy. And February of 2010 I moved to El Dorado. May 23, 2011 I graduated from El Dorado High School in El Dorado, Arkansas. I have completed the basic studies program at South Arkansas Community college. I am also in a college program for young adults with disabilities called the Stepping Stones Program. The founder of the program Mrs. Beth Burns got an internship lined up for me at the Murphy USA national retail field support center on April 30th, 2012 thanks to another classmate's father happening to be the then CEO of Murphy USA. In 2015, I graduated from the Stepping Stones program (now known as the Academic and Career Achievement Program). In April of 2017, I participated in the Phi Beta Lambda student organization (aka Future Business Leaders of America, FBLA or PBL) in the competitive events of help desk and computer concepts in my states chapter level conference where I placed first in help desk and second in computer concepts. I then went on to the national conference that year in Anaheim, California in June of 2017 and won fourth place in computer concepts and placed in the top 15 nationally in help desk. In the spring of 2019, I earned my technical certificate in computer information technology. In the following fall of 2019, I graduated from South Arkansas Community College (now known as South Arkansas College) with an associates of applied science in computer information technology. I am now an IT department assistant for the corporate IT department at Murphy USA and prior to this, an intern for the national retail field support center for my first 6 years of employment with Murphy USA.