“You’re pushed to here and you’re pushed there and if you don’t have somebody advocating for you, then you’re just stuck. So they read your file just like everybody else, but they don’t strictly read it and then that defines you. They actually ask you, “How are you? What are your plans in life? What do you want?” My guardian ad litem would speak on my behalf of how I’m doing in school, or if there was anything that I needed.”