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[quote=Anonymous]Nerdy/band/Natl Merit but also was extremely shy/anxious, slightly overweight, was bullied significantly through about 9th grade (a couple of nasty people continued after that) but also sexually abused at home (sibling responsible committed suicide complicating emotions further). So when I went far away on a pretty much full-ride scholarship I did well first semester, began to spiral second semester, then went to the other end of the US to a different school, still in a semi-spiral state, did not quite graduate, then really adrift up until a major mental breakdown (really, who gets coded messages from the cosmos via Days of Our Lives???? One mildly entertaining aspect of a horrendous year). Very slowly pulled myself up from the muck, went back for a real degree (figured out that what I liked and was good at was worth studying--STEM field) but also fell in love with the wrong person, ended up with a SN kid and did not finish grad school (dean said I had the highest GRE he had ever seen). Had another severe episode of depression but pulled myself out of the muck again and have an ok job, not a career (too old by then) and own a house-rundown but it is a house and paid for.

Has been hard to develop relationships with others (still close to some of my college friends) over the years because of feeling like my life was just so off-kilter relative to norms. At the same time I am sometimes impressed by the fact that considering where I was at times I am not homeless or stuck living on SSI in a subsidized apartment. And despite pot/acid/mushrooms/coke in college I never developed addictions to drugs or alcohol.

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