Ok hi! I don't know what to write as I'm new to all this so I thought why not blog about my life. I am only 15 years old but in that 15 years a lot has happened..
So where do I start? Well I was brought up (still am) in Meir which is bad enough because it's a horrible area, my mum and dad were together from a young age and had me and my two sisters. A few years later that didn't work out and they split up. I can't exactly remember the age of me and my sisters when my mum started to take drugs but yes I think it was a couple of years after she split up with my dad, she then found a new partner who was also on drugs.. (His name was Simon, he was a horrible man) Anyway they started to take drugs but we kids didn't know anything of it because even though they were on drugs we ALWAYS got what we wanted pretty much, we had the best clothes as kids, the best toys/gadgets etc.. But never really had a proper mum and dad.
(Also they both used to mentally abuse me by calling me (fat/ugly/etc....) every single day and it got to the point where my confidence was that low I never went out, which I still don't till this day because I always feel fat and conscious of my weight.)
So as the years past we were all getting older and eventually found out about them taking drugs and to be honest we weren't really fussed, we live in Meir it's nothing new. Well after all of that my mum and my (ex-stepdad) split up, so it was just me and my sisters and my mum. She was still on the drugs but after a couple of years she decided it was enough and finally got off them which all the family was happy about.
So at this point I was in year nine, my little sister was in year eight and my older sister was in year eleven just leaving school. So we were all very aware of the situation and what was going on, but when we all think everything is getting better it just went to worse. Obviously when my mum got off the drugs she was really thin and basically looked like a rat, so she wanted to put weight back on to look better, so my uncle suggested that she drank a can of beer every day to put some weight on (which was a bad idea) as my mum has an addictive personality and as you know what I'm going to say next she got addicted to alcohol so then instead of a 'druggie of a mother' we had an alcoholic as a mother which was even worse.
Every single day she would wake up and start drinking, and she would drink all through the day until she was literally paraletic. So this went on for about 8months (this was last year 2012) so yes this went on and then pretty much everything changed for a while when one night when she was completely drunk she left the chip pan on in the kitchen, and she fell asleep while all us kids were asleep in bed, now the kitchen didn't set on fire but the chip pan did and it just filled the house with black smoke. And we didn't have any fire alarms but luckily my older sister came downstairs because she was coughing because of the smoke so she needed a drink but she wasn't aware that it was because the house was filled with smoke, she looked in the mirror because her nose was blocked and her face was just black with smoke.
After she woke me up and told me that there was a fire but it had been put out, and my mum was then awake and aware of all this. All that she did was opening the back patio doors to let the smoke out and told us to go back to bed, and then decided to call the fire brigade (not because she was worried about us, because she was wondering if she could get a claim) selfish I know.. Anyway when they came we all had to get out of the house and get checked over, turns out my sister was 8 minutes away from death and had to be put on a drip at the hospital. Anyway after all that happened and my sister was out of the hospital and everything we went and live back at my mums (which was only for a couple of weeks) until she smashed someones windows across the road.. So she got sent to prison which was a relief for everyone really.
Then me and my sisters went to live with my nan for a year, which
i'm not going to get into.. That was all fine, we got what we needed and that's all we needed. So there isn't much else to tell really apart from my mum got out of jail last December and started to drink as soon as she got back out.. So we all came back to live here after a few months when social services said we were aloud. Well me and my little sister did my older sister stayed and lived with my nan until this day. And the last bit when my mum got out of prison in December she was on a 15month suspended sentence and if she did anything wrong she would go straight back which she did (she hit some woman) and is now getting sent back sometime in august so we're now having to move in with my dad.. Which is just great.
That's it really, nothing much to tell, but for those who did read all of this and if any of you have been through similar stuff then feel free to message me for a chat. Inspired by
+sprinkleofglitter 's 'Draw my life' video x