Child X

I was born to a poor disabled mother and my father was a drug addict and an alcoholic. I am a victim of the system, a social outcast from birth who has wandered from one “home” to the next never feeling as if I belonged in any of them. Only a couple of days after I was born I had a surgery to correct a medical condition. I almost died. This would later cause me to have further medical problems, seizures and swelling as an adult. My mother struggled to get around due to dependency on a wheelchair and crutches. She was discriminated against for jobs because she could not do physical labor or any job that required being on your feet all day. When my mother was pregnant with me my father was already doing drugs; by the time I was born he was already in jail.