When I was a kid I was different than everybody else in the tenement style apartments we lived in. I loved the outdoors and the creek. Everything I caught I brought back home. I tested out at genius level as a child. I remember everything being so easy for me then.
My condition onset at a certain age. Around seven. I was knocking holes in the walls and acting out in school. This was a drastic change from the mild mannered child my Southern parent with no education and who raised five other children besides me knew.
Despite my meltdowns and bender's which were very long I was often bullied and though I attempted to take up the mantle of that and a general hellion neither worked in the face of the genuine article that thrived around me everyday in the ghetto.
I lost childhood friends that you are supposed to have for life. I sacrificed my family and even when my regrets were up to my neck and the guilt of all my behaviors became a drowning experience there was no way back to repair the things that I had done, which still with those same people to this day.