Reply #21: Sorry to dredge this post back up, but I didn't see this question.

[Evoman]

I'm not going to get into everything...some things are personal, but I will give you a brief answer. I am the son of immigrants who came here after being exiled (at the point of a gun)...I am in fact an exile myself . I've been dirt poor all of my life....my parents were too proud to get social assistance. A couple of times we were pretty much starved. Then my dad cheated multiple times on my mom...basically getting about 3 ladies pregnant. So..yeah...basically he ended up being kicked out...so we were even MORE poor, if you can imagine that. I've been working since I was a child. My mom was too busy working crap jobs to really spend much time with us.

I also grew up in an extremely rough neighbourhood. When I was in grade school, I witnessed my first stabbing. I've also been chased by the cops a couple of times (never for anything bad..I've never stolen anything, or hurt anybody, I just want people to know that). Bad experiences with police has made me suspicious...okay, honestly..HATEFUL, of police and authority. Not all of them, obviously, but I definitely notice a bad trend with cops.

But I'm grown up now (27)..I finished my bachelors degree, and I am finishing my masters as we speak.

But no matter what happened to me, and no matter what I've seen (I've travelled in 3rd world countries and seen some appalling things), I've never felt depressed.