I Act Older Than My Age

This is all related to how I grew up, I grew up in a bad neighborhood that still makes people painfully say "oh god" I was exposed to mass crime, gun violence and death, I still have a puncture wound below my heart from when a bully stabbed me with a pen, I lost three friends in a single year including the first girl I knew I loved, I watched people kill themselves slowly, I watched my mom drift off in her own little world and not realize the things I went through, to this day she knows nothing of the pain I endured, I had to fight every day, I have broken my knuckles, been concussed, had my ribs cracked, my nose broken, all because I was white in a bad Hispanic neighborhood, growing up in school for the first few years I was forced to sit quietly in the hall and not be allowed to learn with the other children because I was left handed and they didn't know how to teach me.... that is chapter one of many, thanks for reading