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The first time i played Warcraft 2 I was amazed. Seeing the footman battle with grunts... Building barracks...Harvesting gold...Chopping Trees...It was my first time experiencing a real time strategy game. a pass time I now enjoy 14 years later.... heh I call it a pass time...I lie to my self too much, no one with my passion could call an RTS simply a pass time.. it was much more then that.
I never in my life really had a father. If anyone were to come close it would be the man me and my mother moved in with. Whom so fatefully happened to be the man with Warcraft 2.
I was in Second grade at the time, I was a normal kid for my age... I only played a bit of Warcraft 2 each day.. perhaps for a little longer then an hour. However i did obsess about it quite a lot. I don't really know how to explain what happened in my brain when I played. But I would get a high at just seeing the battlefield and my units clash . It gave me a lot of joy to see the battles transpire and Create units. At the time I was said to have a learning disability. I did not need to be put in special classes but I was often taken aside for special help. However now that I look back on it. I think my mother was just really paranoid. She always tried to push pills to solve problems she would think I had. My mom accuses just about everyone in our family of having some sort of mental issue ( Thanks to the internet). She now shows signs of schizophrenia..hearing voices and what not and saying god was trying to tell her something... However as it stands I'm far from a person with any sort of learning disability. I had recently took an IQ test and scored a 130.( Not an online test) in Sixth grade i had a IQ of 100. The schools would do this with there Special education students every so often where I am from. Now I don't really know whats to blame from having an IQ of 100 and then scoring a 130. But I do know as I aged My mindset opened a thousand fold, and the main reason for me being put in special education was for not doing well... ANYTHING*Possible reason - will come to later, If i had shared it now it would ruin a good part of the story-*
Being in a broken family, It's hard to expect good results academically. And there is little motivation to do so with limited praise. But there was plenty of scolding. My mother had a drug problem and would often disappear for days leaving me with her boyfriend. The only solace I found was gaming. But this is just the start of my life I haven't even gotten to play on battle.net yet.... Thats where it all changed
Can't wait for the next segment!
