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Lifelong Discrimination As Lowest Man On Totem Pole

Born shackled with globe sized yoked millstone around my neck rivaling the world Atlas shrugged, or outsize boulder Sisyphus eternally obliged to toil uphill steepest mountain side in concert with Battlestar Galactica pièce de résistance ear splitting discordant cacophonous din. Simultaneously analogous twin tower of Old Faithful geyser Googleplex times Mariana Trench aqueous oceanic chasm amply housing Rhode Island sized fountainhead constantly spewed vitriol out subterranean mouth scalding yours truly with deadly skull king poison (parenthetically), metaphorically, hyperbolically approximates, nee aforementioned actually an understatement how whit sir yours truly psyche dashed, manhandled, whipsawed post parturition mine birth subjected to class sic biochemical, environmental, neurological pummeling, oft times the cudgel inherent, latent, salient... genetically scripted torment. Case in point constitutes psychosocial (mine) extreme introvertedness, painfully shy reticence exiled within zapped writhing, wrenching, wracking emotional, physical, spiritual isolation plaguing mein kampf, a worse fate than death experiencing brutal and nasty schooling as outcast never feeling linkedin among peers, nor family of origin particularly latter years minimally functioning just squeaking to advance from one grade to the next hidebound by invisible manacles weighted heavily with severe anxiety debilitating, paralyzing, unrelenting panic/ anxiety attacks. Scattershot employment track record poor credit rating the bane of misery bias, discrimination, prejudice throughout hand to mouth existence impacted two innocent grown progeny the eldest unforgiving, no matter this papa coped with demands of child raising the missus easily overwhelmed deferred domestic duties birthday party arranger, chauffeur, cook, homework helper, summer time planner, medical appointment scheduler...

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