Matt |
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Hey, my name is Matt and this is my 400th post special! So without further ado, here is my story:
I was born on the 16th of December 2000 (which makes me one of the last 20th century kids). Growing up, I made some great friends, but never stuck around ‘cause we moved a lot.
Fast-forwarding a couple of years, here I was starting school. Everything was fine for a couple of weeks (because nobody new nobody) but when other started making friends, everyone just rejected me.
In year 3 I had my very first computer class. I wasn’t amazing at it (because I had never seen a computer before) but after a bit I became really good at working with computers and pretty much found out my talent. In year 5 when other kids were learning how to use a keyboard/mouse I was placed in a “geek” class where I was learning the basics of programming. My teacher talked to my parents about how talented I was and they decided to get me my own computer. This came with ups and downs though. I learned a lot in that class but everyone saw me as that one nerd who had nothing to do than study computer science. That’s when the bullying began. On one side I had people trying to be friends with me, hoping that I would let them copy from me during tests, and on the other side I had people bullying me physically and mentally.
To only make things worse within 6 months I was diagnosed with anxiety disorder, panic attack disorder, and worse of all crohn's disease. Crohn’s disease is an uncurable but treatable disease that manifests through severe diarrhea, mad fever, abdominal cramps, weight loss and in turn depression.
I was forced to switch to online schooling as it allowed me to go at my own pace. On some days I would wake up ready for life and to take on a new challenge, and on some days I would wake up thinking about what the most effective way of killing myself was. It was that bad. Anyway, I would say that switching to online schooling only did me good. That’s when I discovered the online world. In 2014 I finally convinced my parents to buy me this game called Minecraft that I saw on YouTube.
I logged onto MCSG for the first time and I will never forget it. I was on the TeamSpeak when BoloFTW joined my channel. He was pretty much my only friend at the time. As time went on I made more and more friends and realized that the online life was for me.
Had I lived in any other age one of two things would’ve happened to me: 1: Crohn’s disease would’ve killed me or 2. I would’ve been the loneliest person on earth. The only good thing this has taught me is to not take things for granted and to cherish every moment of life because someone out there probably has worse than me and might not even be able to treat it. I chose to look at all the things that I can still do, rather than to look at everything I can’t do.
I was born on the 16th of December 2000 (which makes me one of the last 20th century kids). Growing up, I made some great friends, but never stuck around ‘cause we moved a lot.
Fast-forwarding a couple of years, here I was starting school. Everything was fine for a couple of weeks (because nobody new nobody) but when other started making friends, everyone just rejected me.
In year 3 I had my very first computer class. I wasn’t amazing at it (because I had never seen a computer before) but after a bit I became really good at working with computers and pretty much found out my talent. In year 5 when other kids were learning how to use a keyboard/mouse I was placed in a “geek” class where I was learning the basics of programming. My teacher talked to my parents about how talented I was and they decided to get me my own computer. This came with ups and downs though. I learned a lot in that class but everyone saw me as that one nerd who had nothing to do than study computer science. That’s when the bullying began. On one side I had people trying to be friends with me, hoping that I would let them copy from me during tests, and on the other side I had people bullying me physically and mentally.
To only make things worse within 6 months I was diagnosed with anxiety disorder, panic attack disorder, and worse of all crohn's disease. Crohn’s disease is an uncurable but treatable disease that manifests through severe diarrhea, mad fever, abdominal cramps, weight loss and in turn depression.
I was forced to switch to online schooling as it allowed me to go at my own pace. On some days I would wake up ready for life and to take on a new challenge, and on some days I would wake up thinking about what the most effective way of killing myself was. It was that bad. Anyway, I would say that switching to online schooling only did me good. That’s when I discovered the online world. In 2014 I finally convinced my parents to buy me this game called Minecraft that I saw on YouTube.
I logged onto MCSG for the first time and I will never forget it. I was on the TeamSpeak when BoloFTW joined my channel. He was pretty much my only friend at the time. As time went on I made more and more friends and realized that the online life was for me.
Had I lived in any other age one of two things would’ve happened to me: 1: Crohn’s disease would’ve killed me or 2. I would’ve been the loneliest person on earth. The only good thing this has taught me is to not take things for granted and to cherish every moment of life because someone out there probably has worse than me and might not even be able to treat it. I chose to look at all the things that I can still do, rather than to look at everything I can’t do.