My father was asshole starying around my six birthday, I went from daddies little boy to spawn of Satan in his eyes, I was youngest of 3 ,it was never about me, he didn't want kids, but he desperately wanted my mother, he got tired of keeping up the act. I became a chronic "runaway" instead of getting the snot beat out of me, I started living in a laundromat and working under the table at an Italian restaurant (word of wisdom laundromats that are open 24 hours don't have furnaces, you need quarters to run the dryers at night in either) my mom was very sick her whole life, around 9 1/2 went home and put up with my father to be there for my mom, soon after my father murdered my mother and tried to kill me, he was stripped of parental rights and I entered a kids version of "witness protection" I never new where I would be, I was moved every day, never slept in the same place twice, I was the only living witness, eventually he disappeared fleeing the jurisdiction, at that time I was put in foster care with a very unstable woman who came after me with a 12 gauge for leaving a spoon in the sink, then I was shipped to a "disposal orphanage" ( they keep you till you age out of the system, you get 20 bucks cash and a bus ticket anywhere you want to go.
Instead my 1st day when I was supposed to be evaluated by a shrink, I wouldn't play mental games with her, I said I am an open book her to know me and you will have plenty of answers for your bosses, but you have to earn it. Little did I know I left her no choice in doing her job, that no kid had ever done, once she got to know me and had her answers, I was probably her last evaluation, she loved me and wanted to give,e the home I deserved, she was in charge of evaluations there and had been there 16 years, she was told it would be conflict of interest, she quit on the spot and said "is the boy mine" they said as long as his home county approves, so temporarily, when she found out the county wanted to pay her for foster care and have a social worker "supervising" she said no dice, I am going to adopt him, he doesn't need your grief, and that's what she did .
I grew into a decent hard working man under her guidance and am more like her than anybody in my birth family. Back in 2004 I was in a mental ward, my neurologist wanted to give me the diagnosis we had long sought, he did it by ambush, having admitted me for tests a dozen times I didn't feel it would be any different, during the night they moved my whole bed to to a locked behavioral health unit.
I woke up before anybody expected me to, and was pissed and started chewing ass about kidnapping and license losing, until I talked to my neurologist, then I absolutely needed to be there ! My mom was teaching in Europe, so I called my aunt, who called my mom, who moved heaven and earth to have a plane held on the runway till she got there, once in the air she found out it was landing at LaGuardia perfect if she was going home, not perfect for getting to me, she convinced the pilot to declare an emergency in flight so he could land in Buffalo where my aunt would be waiting. The psychiatrist was extremely impressed by the love and bond we had, he had never seen a stronger family, imagine his surprise when he found out I was abused and survived attempted murder to get adopted, we freaked him out and fortunately my neurologist missed my actual disease by a pubic hair, I would later find out that 99 out of 100 neurologist would give me the same diagnoses, walk like a full talk like a duck, you must be a duck, had he been right we would not be here, I would have died by 06. My actual diagnose is just as deadly if not more so than that fast progressing ALS he diagnosed me with, I have all the signs and symptoms of ALS without actually having it. So yes I came from broken home, but made good on bad deal. I hope your still awake I am long winded!