Rw's My Life In Imperfection Pt 2

The time has come my parents have gone their separate ways. Divorce often affects us in more ways than one. I remember being told by my aunt that my stuttering problem came about because of that situation with my parents. We moved on to the city of Hayward CA to temporarily stay with our grandparents while my mom worked as a cook at a elderly living facility.

Being around my grandpa who is no longer with us was very strict at times. It got to a point where I was scared to leave my room to use the restroom and as a result had an accident on myself. I have a theory that my anxiety disorder developed later on in my life because of my grandfather's ways. He worked at Muni transit authority in San Francisco Ca as a bus cleaner late nights. My grandpa was a huge fan of sports and pizza. I remember we would often go to pizza hut also in Hayward btw.

My great aunt who also passed away due to drug abuse in her younger life, so my grandparents raised her children my female cousins on their own. At such a young age my emotions always got the best of me at times but hey I’m human. I was attached to my mom’s hip to the point where I would cry my little crocodile tears every time she went somewhere lol.

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About a year after we moved into a new apartment near my mom’s job my stepfather and extended family came roaring into our young lives. You see he also worked at the same elderly living facility as my mom, my stepfather had children from a previous relationship in Oakland Ca.

Altogether me, my mom, and brother, along with my additional family lived in a small multi story apartment basically sharing one room how bad can that be folks. My stepfather now passed away from lung cancer. I call him J sr and was also a major fan of football, and basketball. J sr had what I call narcissistic tendencies like being controlling at times, making bad choices in life yet unwilling to take full responsibility and trying to change his ways, among other immoral things I rather not mention in this story. My step siblings at the time treated me unfairly because of their selfish reasons unknown to me. In current times we get along well for the most part. My k-12 era continued. I was being educated at Strobridge elementary while my siblings at Longwood schools. Everyday after school we had to change our school clothing before we could hangout outdoors.

We lived in a suburban type of apartment complex with some of the nicest yet odd neighbors I’ve ever seen in my then young life. We also lived near a park and often hung out there to do whatever we wanted. In school I was in a music class singing about sweet sweet papayas and all that jazz. I one time I had a flute musical instrument and struggled to play it. One of my siblings was playing around, however she accidentally broke it. I never played it again unfortunately. Near where we once lived was a corner liquor store It’s still there currently where we would buy all kinds of sugary junk foods from cupcakes to lollipops and everything in between. Being a christian family we along with some neighbors would go to night church and praised the lord till the wheels fell off. To be continued…..