Kentucky

[rexbeccarox]

G golly I felt like the typical spoiled rich kid next to the rest of you guys

Sweetie, we all have our shit

[pocaracas]

Being raised by junkies and turning out... ok-ish... is awesome!
I'm a typical middle-class city kid, from Europe.... well, not so typical, because I'm not the kind to go to social events every week and the like...
I was a wake-up -> go to school -> back home -> watch tv -> play computer games -> sleep kind of guy. I'd eat somewhere in there...
Pretty boring, in comparison, huh?

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

I grew up as one of a large family on a farm in Co. Antrim, Northern Ireland. I had a wonderfully happy childhood. Da never raised his voice to any of us, let alone his hand (he had other methods of discipline).

Sorry for those who had it otherwise.

Boru

[Belac Enrobso]

Being raised by junkies and turning out... ok-ish... is awesome!
I'm a typical middle-class city kid, from Europe.... well, not so typical, because I'm not the kind to go to social events every week and the like...
I was a wake-up -> go to school -> back home -> watch tv -> play computer games -> sleep kind of guy. I'd eat somewhere in there...
Pretty boring, in comparison, huh?

That's pretty much all I do now too, since my mom left my dad 5 years ago.
I did try to live with my dad but that led to piddling with marijuana, go figure, and just more sore petty disappointment. So after living off and on between his parents and him for three years i finally said "fuck this noise" and moved to my mothers.
My mothers by comparison is a whole lot better, except that she cheated on my stepfather about 5-6 months ago and is now pregnant! Yippee, and the best part is, I'm more than likely going to have a mixed sister, which is actually pretty sweet, considering I already have 4 mixed cousins. My aunt has a huge thing for guys from Nigeria, which is awesome in my opinion, because it adds authentic culture into our family and spices up what I think to be the boring style of regular American culture, which is a Frankenstein culture now. But any who, yeah, it is what is, just can't wait to get my ass in college so I can be 99% done with it all and finally progress with something meaningful.

[orogenicman]

I was born and raised in the shitwad redneck hoods ( literal hoods in Kentucky) of Kentucky. FML
My shitface dickwad fucktard dad was a redneck cousin fucking drug dealing junkie. FML
My dumbass mom was stupid enough to allow this mother fucker to impregnate her at the age of 19 while she had college and everything else going for, following becoming pregnant with four more children across my father and two other men. FML
My childhood and teens consisted of dealing with douchebag dad shit like, being restrained to a couch while he farted on my face, threats of breaking my neck if I crossed his parental boundaries, smoking pot in the house throughout my entire life, disappearing from my life like he was fucking David copperfield( which was great becuase I didn't have to deal with his shit), and dealing drugs and making me and my mom and siblings a target for other douchbag drug dealing junkies like himself to pick on. FML
Yes, I was born and raised in the hoods of Kentucky, where one of my family members was eventually pinned in the slammer for seven years for cooking crystal, on a multi million dollar Kingpin level. FML
But you know what, I honestly couldn't bring myself to give any fucks anymore, that's all nearly two decades in the past, and, despite my ranting, it no longer affects me.
My question for the forum is where did you grow up and what was your period of growth like, as in your childhood,teens, and even beyond that if you are still growing.

Well, I was born on a perfectly normal, though poor farm in Hardin County, Kentucky. My father was a veteran of WWII who didn't see action because he was too busy guarding the Hanford Nuclear reactor, although he didn't know what he was guarding at the time. I have many relatives who have fought in various wars, including WWII, the Korean War, Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan. One died fighting Hitler's army, and is buried in Luxembourg. My mother was the youngest of 14 (10 girls, 4 boys), all Catholic from one of the families that started the first Catholic parish west of the Alleghenies (though I am an atheist). I am an 11th generation North American. My family heritage is so large that I am likely related to everyone, so be nice to me. I got my love for astronomy and geology from my father, and my love of cooking from my mother. I only mention this because I wanted people to know that not everybody in Kentucky lives or was raised in "shitwad redneck hoods", Kentucky, wherever the FUCK that is.

[là bạn điên]

You think you had it hard!

In My life

one year a boy down the road got a better Christmas present than I did.

I was stopped from watching Dr. Who for a whole month..child brutality!

Sometimes I had to wear clothes that my older brother had previously worn!!!! Imagine the shame.

My Parents were sometimes 'too busy' to play monopoly with me.

I was forced to Walk the dogs AND lay the Table AND help clear plates away and I wasn't paid!

[c172]

I've been to the Cincinnati airport.

[Belac Enrobso]

You think you had it hard!

In My life

one year a boy down the road got a better Christmas present than I did.

I was stopped from watching Dr. Who for a whole month..child brutality!

Sometimes I had to wear clothes that my older brother had previously worn!!!! Imagine the shame.

My Parents were sometimes 'too busy' to play monopoly with me.

I was forced to Walk the dogs AND lay the Table AND help clear plates away and I wasn't paid!

I know that feel bro.

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I was born and raised in the shitwad redneck hoods ( literal hoods in Kentucky) of Kentucky. FML
My shitface dickwad fucktard dad was a redneck cousin fucking drug dealing junkie. FML
My dumbass mom was stupid enough to allow this mother fucker to impregnate her at the age of 19 while she had college and everything else going for, following becoming pregnant with four more children across my father and two other men. FML
My childhood and teens consisted of dealing with douchebag dad shit like, being restrained to a couch while he farted on my face, threats of breaking my neck if I crossed his parental boundaries, smoking pot in the house throughout my entire life, disappearing from my life like he was fucking David copperfield( which was great becuase I didn't have to deal with his shit), and dealing drugs and making me and my mom and siblings a target for other douchbag drug dealing junkies like himself to pick on. FML
Yes, I was born and raised in the hoods of Kentucky, where one of my family members was eventually pinned in the slammer for seven years for cooking crystal, on a multi million dollar Kingpin level. FML
But you know what, I honestly couldn't bring myself to give any fucks anymore, that's all nearly two decades in the past, and, despite my ranting, it no longer affects me.
My question for the forum is where did you grow up and what was your period of growth like, as in your childhood,teens, and even beyond that if you are still growing.

Well, I was born on a perfectly normal, though poor farm in Hardin County, Kentucky. My father was a veteran of WWII who didn't see action because he was too busy guarding the Hanford Nuclear reactor, although he didn't know what he was guarding at the time. I have many relatives who have fought in various wars, including WWII, the Korean War, Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan. One died fighting Hitler's army, and is buried in Luxembourg. My mother was the youngest of 14 (10 girls, 4 boys), all Catholic from one of the families that started the first Catholic parish west of the Alleghenies (though I am an atheist). I am an 11th generation North American. My family heritage is so large that I am likely related to everyone, so be nice to me. I got my love for astronomy and geology from my father, and my love of cooking from my mother. I only mention this because I wanted people to know that not everybody in Kentucky lives or was raised in "shitwad redneck hoods", Kentucky, wherever the FUCK that is.

There be a place in a little town called East Bernstadt, they call it ape yard, and yes they call it that because that is where all of the people with dark toned skin lived in a town largely populated by Caucasians. It was full of meth labs, pregnant Teens(possibly from incest), and the lawns were so poorly cared for that the grass would grow to be 2.5-3 feet tall in some areas, which was quite common throughout all of ape yard.

I've been there several times but have never lived there, but my (albeit broken) home was about 1-2 miles away from ape yard so the effects of druglife still took affect.

There's also Portland Louisville, although perhaps not "redneck" it still is a shitwad hood. Don't go there.

But yes most of Kentucky is still just peaceful farms and pastures, with beautiful green fields that grow fat cattle and tobacco. That's why I loved Richmond Kentucky so much, because I could often just gaze out at the fields and not care about anything, or at least, not until my shitwad redneck cousin fucking junkie dad didn't do something stupid, like get high on who knows what and beat my mother and brother, asswipe.

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Here's an example of a "heated" discussion between my biological father and my mother:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CimLWUbNP8c

Ok... It wasn't THAT bad, but he still was a shitty douchebag.

[Amelia]

I grew up on a ranch outside of a tiny town that was isolated from the rest of the world. Where I grew up, I never saw racism, homophobia, etc. There were a few fucktards, but every community has a few. While the town was a nice place to grow up, people were happy living small lives, not adding anything to society nor taking anything away. Just existing, I guess. To me, just existing = nightmare, so I fled at 18. It was the best decision of my life.

[Chad32]

There are all kinds of country songs about people growing up in small towns, and wanting to "escape" as soon as possible. You are not alone in your feelings. I grew up in a small town too, and was actually pretty content. I like the familiar too much to want to run off very far.

Not that I didn't want to get out of my parent's house. I just didn't move to another state like some people when I did.