thank you very much, i really appreciate it!

im glad it all worked out for you
i just want to ask if you still like grieve over or think about things that happened when you were young? if anything at all? i am 18, scared and feeling like it'll never get better
im not sure that i can ever forget the things that have happened to me
I had a HORRIBLE childhood.
My "parents" had a son to begin with, and my "mom" wanted a daughter, so they had sex again and BANG I was born as a male and NOT a female child. This was in 1956 and they wanted to leave me at the hospital for adoption. However, being 1956 they would have looked like horrible parents/people, so I went home and had 18 years of HELL!
The day after I turned 18, they drove me to town, I was raised on a working dairy farm, dropped me off on a street curb with NO food, NO money, NO nothing except the bag with my clothes in it and drove away. Never heard from them again, 100% their choice.
When both of them died it was in their wills that they did NOT want me at their wakes or funerals, so I stayed away, as I did not want a huge mess if I showed up.
Now, with all of that said, to answer your question, YES it affected me then and still does to some degree.
I have learned through the decades, that I way I was treated growing up gave me a foundation on how NOT to treat folks and to treat people in a warm, kind and loving way.
So, YES, it WILL get better for you, I 100% believe in that and in YOU.
I did not go to college till I was 24, had to save money up and also had no idea what I wanted in life, BUT over 40 years later I look back and smile that not only I did it my way and by myself, BUT that I treated everyone around me kindly and that I would not change a thing ever.
You have so much to look forward to.
Whenever I start to rethink about my childhood, still do sometimes, I always tell myself this: "Thinking about it is like carrying a load of rocks in a backpack that is tied to me, does no good at all, so get rid of the rocks and move forward".
You are beautiful, loving, caring and have a VERY bright future, I 100% believe in YOU
We are ALL in this together.
Walter