My name is Ian.

I am 30 years old and am in management training at a major retail business. I have been on the internet since the early 90’s, before screen names and avatars or even JavaScript, and on static bulletin boards. It cost a certain dollar amount an hour (forget how much now) with slow dial up connections. I ran away from my parents when i was 18 to live with thugs, blacks, druggies, criminals, and psychopaths the next 10 years after that. I shattered 2 of my lower spinal disks when i was gang-beaten in a fight that required major surgery (my parents paid for it.) I was also diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia a couple years later. As a result, i was given several high doses of the wrong meds over the course of several years because i could not afford good doctors. One night, I had an allergic neurotic attack that lasted 12 for hours and almost killed me. I never took the meds again and I have despised doctors ever since. The next few years when i was 28-present I got a full time job, saved money, quit drugs and smoking, moved out of the ghetto, fulfilled 2 seperate year-lease agreements, have not been bothered by my disease, and am completely financially secure and living in my own duplex.

Of course this is all IRL stuff as my online life is an interesting story all by itself during this whole time. Log in to see images!

edit- i still cannot spell to save my life