I yearly have this realization of where my life is heading and how little worth there is in it. I'm 20, and have attempted or planned it at least once every other year since I was fucking 13. Pills? Took 14 tablets of benadryl, had a seizure, nothing else. Took 4 handfuls of Tylenol, foster home thought I was just stupid, I went to sleep and woke up throwing up. Counted at least 16 tablets just from what I vomited. My foster mother told me to try it again.
Hanging? Rope broke the god damn closet pole.
Running in the freeway? Honks, and guilt about potentially ruining someones life, but nothing.
Now I nightly take a handful of benadryl hoping i'll get some degenerative brain disorder to end it for me so I won't remember. At least until I get the balls to risk another seizure and vomiting party by swallowing more pills.
I used to get told it was a sign to stay. Now it's a sick fucking joke, but now i have no choice because my life depends on helping someone else live.
My dad lost his job due to a back injury. He got shit roommates he had crushes on, and they sent us into rapid debt.
My dream college accepted me 2 years in a row. Both times I couldn't attend, because no co signer, I applied to scholarships and didn't get a single one, FASFA could only help so much with the cost. The school even knocked off a year of housing, gave me vouchers and their own scholarships to get me in, and when I couldn't they said there would always be a place for me.
But there won't be, because i'm 20. I missed the time to go to college. And before anyone says 'anyone can go!' Any time i ask for advice, or help on how to navigate when to go, I get told 100% of the damn time that I need to go right now or I never will.
But if i did, I would make myself, 2 people and a dog homeless. Because I am the only working member of this house.
I got the fuck ass 'gift' to work at Intel. In the year I worked, i got sexually harassed twice, a stalker, and a lead who yelled at me till I cried every week for disobeying him and doing what my team manager says instead. I got called every abelist, sexist name under the sun, yet told I possibly couldn't have because i'm 'pretty.' Then told it's not their fault because they think i'm their girlfriend.
But I couldn't leave the job. Because I get paid the most I ever will in my life, I get 24$ an hour, enough to cover mortgage and bills with wiggle room, not enough to uproot and move to an apartment however, because i live in god fuck OREGON.
My uncle gets SS, so he pays what he can as well and that all goes to my dad for whatever he wants. Meanwhile, he still can't find a job.
If I leave. I become homeless. I have no friends to live with, no partner because i'm ugly as fuck and only wanted for sex, which wouldn't be an issue if I wasn't demi.
And then I make an innocent dog homeless, and 2 men who are at least trying somewhat to get by.
I thought maybe I could wait until he got a job and I saved for college to go. But my friend told me when we were 18 that I need to leave, go to her college instead, and get married ASAP.
I tried to explain the situation, that I was having rough luck in dating, that I feared being homeless if I left, and instead, she left. She later came back just to say she 'didn't say that. Didn't mean it if she said it.' But I remember every fucking word. It replays in my head every day I see people going to school.
I can't go to friends to talk, because if I say my situation, they make leaving sound so easy. Because yeah, you can totally get an apartment in a week, ditch your family, go to college with nothing.
And i try not to be bitter about it, but they have help. They got families that help them, i don't even have a car.
So i shut up, and the only calls or texts I got was when they needed anything. Or when they 'miss me' but when i offer to pay for plans, they never want to make even the effort of driving themselves to said plans. They only do couple plans, and considering i am not married, not included.
I can't tell my family, because I don't want them to know I resent the situation. And if I give a hint that I am upset, it's me being over dramatic or not understanding that they're trying.
So i went, stupidly, to the internet.
All I wanted was hope. I wanted to know maybe it wasn't too late to go, that college had no age limit, that it wasn't too late as a demi person to find a partner and get married so I can be on track. Even just when to know when to try to apply to scholarships and the logistics of such, considering those are use it or lose it on a time basis.
I just wanted some god damn hope and was stupid, and instead got hit with the same fears. It is too late. If I haven't gone now, I won't, and i'll be working for this house for forever. I need to go to some random community College and spend money i do not have on classes just to say i did it, even if there are no majors I even see myself being able to understand or do, just go! So easy! I never even got an answer to how to manage scholarships. And the only advice I ever get in dating is to just let them have their way with me, and it is easier. 15 relationships. 15. Only half ended due to life and not sex. It never got easier. And setting boundaries led to more pain. All I wanted was to be loved, but i'm only 'pretty' enough to be lusted over.
I wanted hope one day i could be loved.
One day i wouldn't have to chase my friends expectations of a speedy life to feel accepted. Maybe just once at least not become judges and just be there, just get food together, go to a movie, i'll pay whatever for it, i just want my friends back. Then after highschool, it became only marriage, college, and judging people not yet advanced.
I wanted hope I could be loved. I could have friends with that innocence we used to have in highschool just doing crafts. I could go to school. I didn't have to rush or die alone and without a life.
Instead, at every turn it was apperent I would only be a fuck doll. I wasted my life befofe I could drink. I should've taken my chances and gone to school anyways, stole, stripped, something more productive to get to school before time ran out.
All my dreams of a future have been crushed. No school. No career. No stable home. No true love. And I should've known I wouldn't ever get any of that the day I was touched and taken by the court.
And to top it all off, I don't got a safe place to sleep to begin with anyways, because i got bed bugs from work too. The suits weren't cleaned, and me and my friends saw bugs within the suit packages or on suits pulled from out hangers. I do the treatments based on what I got off the internet and hope it works only for it to fail and only have my poor neighbor to ask for help, who already has a bunch of kids of her own to care for.
My life is nothing but keeping my family off the streets and alive, being something to screw, and being the person people call to rant about love life, break ups, money.
And what hurts is the friends I do have who probably would be willing to be there, i'm too scared to call, because of our mutual friends and wondering if they think the same low as me as they do. Because our other friends are right, I need to marry someone and go to school to live, and i'm not doing either.
And so those friends don't know what's going on, even when they ask, and i'm to scared to make them upset, so i stick myself in a stupid self pity cycle and taking more pills, then more dread about my future.
I am nothing but a parasite, and nothing but a whore.
Once my dad gets a job, i'm taking whatever I can find, and climbing the highest roof i know. I don't want to feel the end. Death scares me. But I know i'll have nothing left to be alive for. I wasted my time and my body. I don't know if whatever happens after death will be better, but maybe i'll be more useful for something other than my money and tits.