Born from a drug addict, I was neglected as an infant, and taken care of by my sisters. I was severely malnourished and under developed mentally and physically from the neglect. Due to the under development, foster parents thought I was mentally disabled, and would never let me play-- choosing instead to make me sit in a high-chair all day so that I wouldn't hurt myself.
Eventually I was put up for adoption, and I moved from foster home to foster home until i was 2 or 3. Then I was adopted by a loving family, who nursed me to health, and raised me as their own. I didn't even know I was adopted until I was 10 when they told me. I played lots of sports through grade school including gymnastics, swimming, dance and soccer. I was home-schooled throughout high-school and moved between USA and China a lot during that time, helping to run the family business which includes a factory in Changsha, China which manufactures textile products for export to the USA. I was a pretty average student. When I was 13 I got into computers and around 15 I was introduced to programming in PHP. I've been in love with computers ever since! I finished high school early when I was 17, and immediately went to college where I got a bachelors degree in business management, and then joined the government as a junior system administrator when I was 20. Now I am 22 and have developed a great relationship with my boss who is the IT director, and I hope to be promoted to a full fledged system admin soon. The agency I work for has a 200 million dollar project in the works that is schedule to be finished within the next 4 years, and I hope to be picked to run the IT systems for the new facility.
In my free time, my brother and I work on personal projects such as the software that runs this board, https://boards.zone. We have also worked on lots of other projects both personal, and for business clients. I dream that some day the boards.zone software can be successful, and then I can use the profits it makes to travel, and have a greater impact on the world through software development.
I have a lot of confidence in myself, perhaps more than I should, and I'm quite obsessed with my appearance. All this makes me think I am likely a narcissist.
On a side note, I did get to meet my real parents and all their children when I was 18, and I'm sad to say that they are all very poor, uneducated, and just not very impressive people. I have never talked to them since, and I feel no love for my mother or father. In my mind, my real parents are the ones who adopted me.
