So I haven't been on this site for a good 5 years, that is a long ass time to not be on a digital platform. However, I have realised, that in less than a month it will be my 10 year writing anniversary, as in I wrote and uploaded my first ever story 10 years ago. This time 10 years ago I was sitting in my partners fathers house reading fanfiction, and my partner was trying to convince me to write some of my own. I was practically illiterate at the time, I'd failed English all through school because they refused to help me deal with my dyslexia, and I'd resigned myself to being as stupid and useless as all my teachers thought I was, I felt that I didn't deserve to learn, I didn't deserve anything. I honestly thought that one day I would just die, and I was fine with that. I had no passion for anything until I discovered I could write, and it didn't matter if I was good or not. Out of school I had no teachers telling me just how bad I was, and that helped so much, I learned by trial and