Thread:FunAndGamess/@comment-34158552-20190915145425/@comment-43837840-20191027005843

Approximate timeline of my life up to ten years:

Imagine that my life can be represented by a function where y=-1.5^{x-6}+0.5, in which x represents years and y represents the quality of my life.

x=0: I am born. y=0.412

x=1: I am a baby that is learning things. y=0.3683

x=2: Still a baby, still learning things. My family takes a trip to Las Vegas. I take my first trip on a plane to China. y=0.3025

x=3: I learn to read letters. My sister is born. y=0.2037

x=4: My family takes another trip to Las Vegas. I get expelled from preschool. No that that really counts. It's called pre-school for a reason. y=0.0556

x=5: I can read fluently while everyone else in our class is still learning letters. I get diagnosed with high-functioning autism. Of course my mom didn't tell me until seven years later, but that's beside the point. y=-0.1667

x=6: I can write fluently (sort of). My relatives in China come over to the US for once. My cousing learns to speak English. I go to a summer camp sponsored by a charity organization. My stupid idiotic aunt gives me a phone and a tablet because she thinks it's a good idea to spoil me and my sister so that we'll like her better than our mom and then we'll want to stay in China. I start to secretly play video games on the tablet and phone. Thinking back on it, I'm sure my mom knew. But she never said anything, probably because she knew how it would affect me later in life. But I didn't know. Seven years later, I'm sure this year was the catalyst for my life falling into chaos, even though it didn't seem like it at the time. y=-0.5

x=7: I think this was the first year I travelled alone. I start to associate yelling with my mom. (Oh yes, she yelled at me a lot back then.) y=-1

x=8: I transfer schools. The new school is more interesting but the kids are less friendly. At this time I really discovered how introverted I was. I also started to get very violent. My mom tried to send me to second grade again (the nerve!) but it only took a month of persistence to get her to move me up into third grade. y=-1.75

x=9: Nothing really interesting happened other than I watched my teacher play video games and show movies during lunch. y=-2.875

x=10: This is the year my life really started going downhill. I was in fifth grade and my mom decided "Hey, I have an idea: I'll just send Phoenixsong to China for 2/3 of a year because that's such a great idea! Then, when she gets back I'll send her to fifth grade again so I can selfishly steal another year of her life from her before she escapes to college!" And that's exactly what she did. Going to China changed me. For the worse, obviously. Nothing really good had happened to my life since I was four. But now I was an entirely new person. This was another catalyst into my life of chaos and doom. Even with all the events that happened when I was six, I might have been able to turn my life around had my mom not sent me to China. y=-4.563

Oh well, I wish that was the end of my story, but it's not. I can't tell you anything that happened after. It's too personal.