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I am a freshman in college. I also recently just turned 18. I am living independently renting out rooms that are available. I am unemployed. I am former foster youth living off a form of welfare called "AB 12" which is $799 a month. I have to make it last for groceries, phone minutes, rent, and utilites. My landlord is a PMS'ing bitch who is a Germaphobe, extremely left wing, fundamentalistly catholic who thinks I am the scum of the earth and when Jesus returns to earth he will smite me for my blasphamy and by that I mean having free will and thinking logically.

Enough about the negative how about some of my hobbies? I like Video Games but since I am living independently I dont have the money to buy them and since I am in college no time to play them. Mostly I like anything from companies like Capcom (no matter how shitty they have become with their obsession with DLC), Level 5, Nintendo, and Sega. I hate companies like Activision but if someone offers to play Call of Duty with me at their house i'll gladly accept (mainly because my apt is so empty and lifeless and I hate always feeling alone)

Speaking of feeling alone I am also single because girls find me intolerable. For starters I am broke mainly 99% of the time and i'm what they call a "gay-ass nerd" because I like Video Games over Booze and Weed. I go to the Santa Rosa Junior College which is a community college where I am in the lowest math class (such as basic math: fractions, decimals, and square roots) because I struggle with a mental disorder called Asperger syndrome. My memory is sporadic I can remember many things to a "T" except basic math problems.

One of the reasons I go to school is because I cant pay for my room if I dont. Also I am trying to earn an English Certificate and hoping to transfer to Sonoma State University and travel abroad because it's been a big dream of mine to finally get out of California because it is so boring here. Hopefully in a week i'll be going to Reno with a friend as a late Christmas gift

My main method of transportation is the city bus. I dont have a vehicle or insurance. I dont have a Driver's license hell I dont even have my Driver's permit yet. I was in the foster system since age 11 and my first day in a foster home was on the day of my birthday. I was abruptly kicked out of my foster home after I turned 18 because the management their lost its "family friendly" persona and rejected me as one of their own.

Going back to live with my parents was not an option. My mom was an addict to perscription medication like Vicodin and she also had to take anti-anxiety medication. My father was an alcoholic with liver cancer and brain damage. I come from a long line of family members prone to substance abuse and or Schizophrenia. I despise alcohol and try my hardest to live a life of a "Straight-Edge." My little brother who just turned 13 a couple days ago is in a mental hospital because he is Bi-Polar and hostile.

Trying to balance having a normal adult life, with college, and trying to find a place to live is one of the most difficult challenges I have faced. For 6 years I spent isolated in a foster home where society rejected me as an outcast. All because my mom and dad could not get along so I had to spend the remainder of my childhood metaphorically locked inside of a cage with no hope of escape until management did away with me because I served my purpose.

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