My parents messed up a great deal when I was very young and I ended up going into foster care.
I have lived with many different foster care families, and I was getting used to being transported from place to place.
I used to wish that my parents would get things together and get me back, but they never did. I ended up believing that they never really cared about me and that I was just a burden to them. The more I thought about it, the more I believed this was true. We didn’t even have air conditioning when we lived together. At least these foster care homes had climate control, but different foster care families had different rules. I would learn to say “yes mam” or “yes sir” when I was spoken to. The last place I ended up living, these parents actually were very loving and kind. They treated me with absolute respect and they listened to me when I had things to get off my mind. They also had the best HVAC system I ever experienced. They actually had something called HVAC zone control so I was able to set the temperature control settings in my room to my preferences and it didn’t affect the rest of the house. I prayed so many times when I was coming up, and I truly feel that God sent me to these people because they ended up adopting me and I became a real son to these loving people. I ended up doing alright after living with them. I went to college and got a good career, and while I sometimes think about my actual parents, if they cared they would have tried harder for me.