So my life story isn't as bad as Spire's, but I'm just gonna go deep with it a bit.
As far as my memory goes back, which was me being a innocent child at 7, life wasn't bad for me. Father wasn't abusive(yet), he had a job, wasn't abusive from alcahol Mother had 2 jobs(Her issues that I'll mention later weren't as horrible), and life was pretty good for me.
Shit started going down in.. 2020. The year before that, my family were forced to move after a neighbor complained about my father being abusive(wasn't bad at all yet), so that meant we had to put ALL of our cats to RSPCA. I had to say goodbye to my favorite cat, and I still have his colar do this day.
2020 was the WORST year for me. Let me sum it up:
Father started to become a bit abusive, his drinking problems started to rack up, he lost his job, I started loosing connection with him, I kept wanting to be around my mom more and more because of him, he started to have seizures in late December, I even saw one and lied down with him since it happened in a store(Look all though he's a f*cking asshat to me doesn't mean I can't comfort him sometimes) and I had to PICK THE LOCK OF THE BACK DOOR TO GET IN THE F*CKING HOUSE BECAUSE HE WAS ASLEEP.
2020 had some good things, such as my own laptop.
That same year my brother found out about this place. And then soon enough I made my account.
This place was new and strange to me, but I got used to it quickly. Took some convincing to get my brother to join, so he did to.
But in 2021(I moved houses again since the original owner wanted to sell the house).. I met someone. Someone I didn't know that I'd be good friends with.
I don't remember how I met them.. they "took me" and kinda showed me around the site a bit.. but that's not the point.
I met a few other people, who I took under my wing, and now we're friends to. One thing I DIDN'T expect is one of them to have a crush on me, so when they mentioned that I accepted and we've been a thing ever since. It became a threesome sometime later.
Still isn't the point.
Eventually I found this place at a point in time, and soon enough I became a regular user.
I got my first front page.. I was finally getting known.
I didn't have a goal for when I joined.. but I appricate that I've gotten this far when I didn't think it was even possible. I only thought it was in my dreams.