By Steven Aitchison
It began at an early age. For the next 18 years of my life, I would soon learn that being different meant that you would get beaten down in just about every conceivable way. See, when you raise yourself on the streets, come home to an empty shell, and get locked in a room for weeks on end as punishment then you tend to be a bit different.
It was one of those situations where you know it’s really bad but you continue on because it’s all you know. I call it situational ignorance. I was in survival mode for most of my life and in the brief moments where there was no fighting or domestic violence, I had moments of reprieve.
At one point during all of this, I slept in a tent in the front yard... More...
