>family is Armenian, escaped a war in Azerbaijan where they were mass murdering a bunch of Armenians
>they escaped to a refugee camp in Moscow, and then one in Armenia, and then settled in the US permanently
>family immigrated here in 1989; not too long before the soviet union completely collapsed
>family gives birth to my sister and I some time in the early 90s
>grew up in a poor townhouse neighborhood
>I spent my childhood days alone with my granny and sister.
>I can still remember sitting on Bobby's porch (bobby was my nickname for my "babushka") eating grapes, watermelon, and drinking Kefir

>Mama and Papa were always gone working, but whenever my mom was home, I was being yelled at and being called a liar.
>Mama literally yelled at me everyday as loud as she could
>to this day, I don't know why she was screaming at me
>used to tell me I was a bad kid, made me stand in corners all the time for things I wasn't sure what I did
>sister had childhood depression and early symptoms of schizophrenia but Mama just used to neglect her and tell her "she's just being a baby"
>my papa was my first hero: One day, when my mother was taking her day out on me, he told her to leave me alone and he hugged me. At that moment, I realized it wasn't my fault she treated me that way
>around age 6, Moma and Popa were arguing and yelling daily
>around this age, my sister started physically/verbally abusing me
>around age 7, papa started getting these weird headaches, but mama just called him a pussy and told him to stop complaining all the time
>eventually papa couldn't get off the couch because of his "headaches"
>mama calls him a liar, and tells us to not believe him
>a couple months later, finally, he gets to the hospital
>gets diagnosed with terminal brain cancer

>I stop trying at school, and teachers keep yelling at me and telling me I'm a bad kid for not trying
>kids physically/emotionally bullied me for being short and what not
>teachers basically convinced me I was retarded
>I would go to school and get called a failure, and then go home and see my mother sobbing, and my father dying/on chemotherapy
>mother convinced father to go to University of Michigan and participate in an experiment
>doctor assholes took interest in my father, because he had a rare form of brain cancer they only heard about in their textbooks during their drunken college days
>he gets signed up for this "experimental treatment"
>he starts hallucinating daily
>he became mentally retarded after a while
>a combination of the brain tumors and "experimental treatment" made him really violent from time to time
>sometimes, he would be in a near-catontic, calm state; then he would stand up screaming and start strangling someone
>this man was a 6 foot 1 body builder before his cancer, so it was terrifying
>once he chased me around the house, and I had to run for dear life
>I tripped over the divider strip on the floor in the doorway, and I stub my tow and I'm bleeding
>I see him standing over me, like an animal was about murder me
>he's screaming

>Suddenly, he snaps out of it, and doesn't even remember how he got there
> "anon, why are you on the floor? You're bleeding"
>eventually, father gets admitted into a hospital
>mother stops working to take care of him in the hospital
>older sister is never home, I'm home alone with bobby
>god bless bobby
>don't see my parents for about 3 months
>felt like years
>eventually they come back, because my father's last wish was to "Not die in a hospital. I hate this place."
>a couple weeks later, my aunt Roza comes to my school, and picks me up
>she doesn't say a word to me the entire car ride
>I ask her "Where are we going? Do I have a doctor's appointment or something?"
>she's just silent
>we get home, and I see my entire family and all of of my dad's coworkers at my house
>Dad is dead at my house, lying on a hospital bed
>He died when I was 8 years old
>my mother's abuse got about 10x
>sister's mental condition get even worse
>my mother literally grounded me everyday
>at one point, I didn't see any friends for a month because I was doing poorly in school
>the next 5 years of my life, it's just constant fighting in the house
>my sister hates my mom
>mom yells at me everyday, calls me liar still, tells me i'm an idiot, tells me I half-ass everything, tells me nobody will ever love me if I keep acting the way I do
>I wasn't even doing anything bad besides not getting good grades (like C's and D's)

>sister is extremely abusive to me but we start getting along a little bit, but starts doing drugs and shit
>by the time I'm in middle school (13 years old) I realize my mother is a dog-shit child abuser
>I start making some friends now
>nobody knows my story still
>I become a class clown
>kind of chubby still, but I start losing weight
>my grades start getting better
>abuse from my mother starts getting worse and worse, but I stop giving a fuck
>One day, I start yelling back at her
> I see my mother cry from my words, I realize I have power and can defend myself
>start discovering music for the first time, find johnny cash's music to be the most hypnotizing sound in the universe
>be in highschool now, and I start making a lot of fucking friends. Like a lot of people.
>mom's work offer's an almost-free course for the Dale Carnegie Educational Course
>mother sends me there for summer classes
>this class teaches me how to stop being a scared little pussy, and be a man
>taught me how to take initiative and meet people and conquer any social anxieties I had
>I start becoming a popular kid
>I start lifting, and making friends
>still, nobody knows my story. Literally none of it.
>my mom meets a man, and he's pretty quiet I guess
>I get my first job as a Utility worker at a super store (literally a cart pusher)
>I start making money and buying video games and my own clothes and what not
>start saving up money because I decided I want to go to Germany after highschool
>by junior year of high school, the sexually attractive and "sexually liberated" girl gives me fellatio, and I have full penetrative sex with her later
>she was so caring, I wouldn't have wanted to lose my virginity to anyone else. She was an angle.
>I start emotionally bonding with another girl my senior year, but we never had sex
>I graduate highschool with $4500 and my grades were pretty good (3.01 GPA)
>mom's boyfriend moves in

>I go to Germany with 24 of my friends and teachers, and I stay with a host family, hotels, and went to every big city in Germany
>was in France for 4.5 hours lol
>visited holocaust museum, was horrifying
>went to German coal mines
>did so many things I still remember new things I did there to this very day during my many day dreams
>that was the first time in my life I felt truly free and happy
>last day in Germany, that "sexually liberated" girl has sex with me one last time. YES!
>I come back to Michigan, and my mom's boyfriend proposed to my mom, they're getting married soon
>he turns out to be a complete narcissistic asshole and is a complete asshole to me, but don't really care because my mother is also a narcissistic asshole so they're perfect for eachother.
>Mom tells me she's diagnosed with PTSD from the war in Azerbaijan
>combination of my insane mother and step father drives me suicidal though
>I start seeing a therapist for the first time in my life
>tell her basically everything I told you guys
>she tells me "if you told me these stories and you were also a minor, you would have been taken away from your mother by child protective services"
>therapy helps me a lot, and it cures my depression
>also, I start smoking weed on the weekends, and it really helps me realize how beautiful the world is, how much worse my life COULD have been
>I start counting my blessing everyday, start thinking positively
>be in college now, and grades start sky rocketing
>getting at least 100% on every math test and what not. apparently i am gifted in science or something. cool.
>get 4.0's in every class
>work at nice diner
>this small, family restaurant treats me like something I never had: a loving family

Boo you whore.

Get on the floor everybody do the west Philadelphia born raised good news everybody you just read this in my voice the game.

>I start exposing myself to women
>my past experiences have granted me a one way ticket to spaghetti town
>I realize they're great, I start marking lots of friends of girls but I'm still pretty awkward around them
>still single and start getting lonely
>I get desperate for SOME kind of sexual attention from somebody
>I start sexually experimenting; trying fucking a dude
>I couldn't get an erection; I wasn't sexually aroused at all
> to my dismay, it turns out I'm fully hetero. Oh well.
>keep working at this restaurant, and college grades are still extremely high
>start exploring religion, because I was raised atheist
>read bible, I find Christianity to be beautiful
>my new religion makes me feel very happy. I feel free and happy all the time now
>No, I am not an anti-abortion homophobic bigot.
>I start sharing my story with people; they look at me like I'm insane, because I'm a very warm, social, and happy looking person
Here I am today:
>Transferring to another college soon to go live in a dorm, and then go to Pharmacy school there
>don't talk to mother anymore; I terminated that relationship
>I play guitar and shit now
>I internally struggle to talk to women and girls because my mother made me feel worthless, but I do it anyway
>i can't make eye contact with a women without thinking she hates me, but I have to remind myself that it's just in my head and I act confident around them anyway
>turns out women really like me when I'm self confident. cool.
>still single, but I feel hopeful. Hope is all I ever had, and it's free and infinite.

I just want to let everyone know that I love all of you. I have been going on 4chan since I was 13, and it was a place I could safely be myself and not feel scared and judged. Now I am a fully grown adult, and I have my own life now, but I still go back here some nights to check things out.
It's not quite the same as it used to be, but it's still got that safe-house feeling. That freedom of speech feeling.
4chan is a like a bunker to hide from the missiles of life anxiety.
God bless you all.

>>29779751
Godspeed you magnificent faggot

Oh, and if you're wondering about my sister:
She's fine now. She's takes medicine and shit, and stopped doing drugs. Only smokes weed. She's now a successful graphic designer and makes great money.
We get along great now. She apologized for hurting me; she was just going through a lot of problems.
Her life is pretty awesome right now.

>>29778296
It's brings me so much joy to see The Man In Black get talked about, it seems like no one knows who he is anymore. What's your favorite song?

>>29779751
fuck off you normie nigger

>>29778296
>white male
>armenian
lmao

>>29779123
>angle
I meant to say she was an angel.
there's a lot typos in this. I am sorry.

Oh, yeah, Bobby died a year ago. She died peacefully in her sleep in a retirement home.

>>29779981
I look very white... f-fuck off, /pol/.
>>29779966
A boy named sue, hurt, the wanderer, five feet high and rising, Folsom prison blues, I walk the line, girl from the north county, Sunday morning coming down, Man in black, ragged old flag, One piece at a time, Ghost riders in the sky, the night hank williams came to town, the ballad of ira hayes.. the list goes on. There are too many songs of his that I love.

>>29780116
Good shit, your story reminded me good my life is. Thanks.

>>29779981

are you aware how close Armenia is to the Caucus mountains?

>>29778296
>implying im reading all this shit
All I saw was
>trip
>genetics that make me intelligent
shut the fuck up

>>29780116
>look white
>>Mediterranean face, with olive skin

pick one.

>>29780163
>it's a "burger thinks churkas are white" episode.

>Armenian
>white

Not even meme-ing, you're not fucking white

>be me
>Handsome white male with beautiful African skin
>Born in Congo
>Proportional body
>Large dingus

Chad here AMA

>>29778296
Get the fuck off my board you fucking shitskin

>>/Srebrenica/

>>29780339
>Srebrenica
What does that mean?
>>29780300
>>Handsome white male with beautiful African skin
lol'd
>>29780258
Well I'm not blond hair and blue eyed with sun burns, sure, but I've got lighter skin than most people
>>29780187
>pick one.
I guess I chose the Mediterranean

>this retard is going to be a pharmacist
>Will literally have people's lives in his shitskin hands

>>29780668
>this retard is going to be a pharmacist
I sure hope I do. I'm glad you think so!
I wish you all a good night.

>>29780914
Thanks anon. You're a hero coming from that background.

>>29780936
Nah I'm sure they let in plenty of Armenians for the sake of diversity