"Sunday,
July, 18 2004. I took my first breath, then 11 years later my parents
realized what a mistake they had made." Ashley Laney
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INTRODUCTORY -
The
big idea of life I think is just to have fun and not waste time
waiting for what comes next. High School sucks, Middle School sucks,
College Sucks, but you know what the longer you just wait to have fun
and find your family then the more lonely you feel and the lower the
chances get of you ever having fun and being the best version of you
that you can be. I know I should be telling you that you are going to
get through it and make it till the end but, I can't promise such a
big promise. I have had many downs and attempted ending my life
several times. This is all that I can promise you, life sucks, and it
might not ever get better, but if you have fun your chances might get
better.
My
Dad Greg laney always tells me little stories of when I was little
and had the largest love for creativity and making things on my own.
I have always wanted to do great things but, I just don't have any
great ideas to act on. Some of my greatest ideas were making my own
birthday cake with sprinkles all over it. That cake didn't turn out
horrible, but I ran out of sprinkles. I then forgot that my dads
birthday was a week after mine so I thought I had to make him a cake
since I was selfish enough to make myself a cake (mainly because
nobody would bake me a cake anyway). The cake was supposed to be
something totally different than it was (I forgot what), but it ended
up looking like a mountain of shit with rotting green stuff on top, I
don't even know. Clearly I should give up on all my asspirations. I
have had a few ideas for books here and there also, but most of them
ended up turning into ash. Ironically that is my nickname. Lol. Not
even that funny though.
I
occasionally get this feeling in the pit of my stomach that feels
like something that I can't quite describe but I have always
interpreted it as telling me that someone or something in my life
isn't good for me and I need to make a change. So I closed every
person that I ever felt this feeling around which is my best friend
from 4th grade who was a lesbian, my best friend from middle school
who is straight, and my friend from 7th and sorta 6th grade out of my
life. But, for the past few months ever since I met the most amazing
person ever that feeling just won't go away. I am beginning to
think that this feeling inside of me isn't something I should be
running away from it might actually the thing I have been searching
for this whole time. Love.
My
teenage years have been drowned in finding just one person who loved
me and wanted to do anything and everything with me, just be the one
that I can tell all of my deepest and darkest secrets to. Who can
hear about all of my fantasies, good times, bad times, suicidal
times, etc... I am just so hell bent on finding someone to hold me
and tell me everything will be ok, and I am the most beautiful,
amazing person in their life. Because I know it would be a lie if
they said I was the most beautiful and amazing person they have ever
met. I am not that amazing of a person just ask my siblings or my
parents.
I
don't really understand why I want to find love so badly but, what
I do know is that the only person in my life right now that I
actually feel 100% myself around seperate from my nerves is a senior
named lets say... "Declan". Declan is so sweet and caring for
everyone, and right when you first say "hi" he will be shy but
after just a little conversation he can be funny and weird just like
me which is what I enjoy the most, seperate from his looks. I know
you are probably reading this Declan which isn't your name, but
just so you know I can't say I am in love, but I can say that this
feeling hasn't gone away since the day I snapchatted you about it.
I also know that you don't really want to be with me and you
probably feel the same way that you do about a certain somebody that
asked you out too many times. I just can't control the way that I
feel which I am sure you understand. Wow I hate how pushy I sound. I
am so Selfish and controlling, why do I have to be this way!
I
am writing this autobiography mainly for myself so that I can get a
clear understanding of all of the shit going on in my mind, I also
really just need something to do in my free time. From the start of
middle school to this day I have gone through anxiety, depression,
addiction, self-hate, trust issues, betrayal and much more. The only
thing that keeps me going through all of this is my friends and I
know I am no longer friends with two of them that has really helped
me the most through this, but you know who you are so thank you
soooooooo much for being my shoulder to cry on. I really mean it
because depending on who the person is I really don't like being
the shoulder to cry on.
Welcome
to my bullshit autobiography/memoir, idfk anymore...... omg, kill me
now.
"It
was hot and creamy and I could feel it running down my throat" -
Willy Wonka Movie
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CHAPTER #1 -
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THE INNOCENT MIND OF A CHILD ~
When
you are a young kid you can't really understand what quotes like
these really mean. I just thought she was talking about the chocolate
but, now as a 14 year old I understand why my parents never liked
showing films like Willy Wonka, Spongebob, or Madagascar, which might
be an unobvious one. If you never noticed all of these films have
their own way of adding dirty jokes in them or just as simple as
using an acronym to add in something young minds just shouldn't
hear. I never really understood any of these jokes but I do now, and
I realized my parents should have been more careful about letting me
watch that stuff. Even though I enjoyed Spongebob the most and still
enjoy it today.
When
I was the age 9 my siblings would ask me "Have you ever been turned
on, Ashley?" and I never knew what it meant so of course my answer
was the worst answer you could ever give at the age of 9 "yeah, of
course! How could you live without it?" I am not even joking about
this. I was 9 years old and I didn't know what being turned on
meant. I always have felt left out of things and because my siblings
were 2 and 3 years older than me I didn't ever understand most of
the things they said, mainly because they were dirty jokes or trendy
things that were going around in the middle school and high school.
Which I never was the type to follow up on trends. To be honest, they
are all really dumb stuff that teenagers just make up so that they
have something to do when they are bored.
Anyway
I guess my main question would be, When did you first watch porn?
Your answer really won't do me much good if you are a guy only
because I know a very large majority of boys start watching porn at
the age of 12 or sometimes younger. I just want to understand how
many girls start watching porn at the age of 12. I actually started
earlier than that it was 11 when I first started which was a huge
shock for my parents because my brother hasn't ever even viewed
porn before. I actually do believe that is true, because I know you
are thinking that he probably has I just don't know about it.
The
story really begins on the first day of school in 6th grade. I had
just moved to Maple Grove, MN and moved in with my dad's first
girlfriend since my mom had left. My mom wasn't in my life for
about 1 year when I was in 4th grade and some of 5th grade but she
had just started to get to know me again. I wasn't at a very good
place, I was nearing puberty, my dad was getting married to another
woman, my brother had anger issues (still does), my sister was going
through puberty and was a total bitch to me (what has changed
though?). I just didn't understand adulthood yet and still don't
understand it very well at 14. It was just worse when I started
middle school because so much crap went on in that year and didn't
know what to think of any of it I just wanted someone that could go
through it all with me that actually cared about me. Yes this was the
year I decided I need a man to be happy.
I
made a new friend that first day named Annabelle Reineux (AKA Anna
Rexine) and her best friend was Laurel Yenosa (AKA Leisan Yusupov).
Laurel didn't actually become my friend until a month into the
school year because I was a little afraid of her if i'm being
honest. I enjoyed hanging out with Annabelle a lot because she was
shy like me and enjoyed singing like me. This was rare for me to
have, someone with similarities with me. Anna wasn't the problem
but she was the cure for me at the time. She was the only person that
really cared about my drama and everything about my life. I told her
literally everything (well not going to the bathroom or anything
weird but close). I also tried to be the best friend I could for her
but out of as many friends as I have encountered in my teen years I
never once had a friend that vented as much as me. She just never
really shared much but that is okay.
Anna
is an actress or will be an actress one day. She loves singing and
acting so much. I actually auditioned to be in the first musical she
has ever been in but, she and Laurel were both better singers than
me. I guess I am okay at singing but when others are around my voice
just shakes way too much. I was really mad at Laurel when this
happened because she said that she would back out of it if I didn't
make it in but of course she didn't because it wa a really big deal
for her to just audition. I got over it eventually. The musical
happened in 7th grade though not in 6th grade.
When
I started watching porn was mainly when sex-ed started at the end of
6th grade. I always heard people talking about the size of their
dicks and who they have fucked before, I just really didn't
understand why I was the only one that didn't know how to have sex.
Later, I found out that I didn't need to know at that time and
nobody really knew how to do it they just talked like they do or have
performed it. I found all that out after I had already destroyed my
innocence with porn though. The first day of sex-ed I went to my moms
house in crystal, mn and went onto my moms old phone which was now
mine to use, it wasn't activated though. I just used youtube to
search "how to have sex" I then found this educational video that
was actually made for french people in their last year of grade
school. I just watched it over and over again until I no longer felt
like throwing up everytime it showed something explicit. I basically
forced myself to be okay with pornography, which sounds bad.
I
didn't stop with a stupid youtube video though, I became obsessed.
I thought that everyone everywhere was supposed to watch porn and
have sex all of the time. I never thought anything was wrong with it
I honestly thought that it was normal to masturbate and do other
things. I just thought that I was the only one in my grade that
wasn't having actual sex. After youtube got boring and not helpful
I found porn-hub and used that most of the time on my computer. I
found out about Omegle which is a stranger video chat site. LOTS of
dicks. I also found sites for prostitutes to film themselves and get
money for it. I eventually got bored of porn though by the middle of
7th grade. I moved on to dating sites to actually find someone to
have sex with me so that I was no longer the only person (or so I
thought) that didn't have sex.
On
the dating sites I didn't really do anything on them. I just set up
an account and waited for people to send me a message. People
wouldn't send messages. They would send pictures. Bad pictures.
Ones that I didn't want to really look at for longer than a split
second. I tried to talk to some of them then I gave in to some of the
actually nice ones. I send nudes and stuff to them, yes at the age of
12. I felt disgusted everytime I just took my clothes off and didn't
even take the picture, just thinking about it made me feel sick. But
just like the porn I thought that it was normal and everybody did it
so I forced myself into sending those pictures. I actually found
snapchat before my trend obsessed siblings because the only thing I
did in my free time was talk to older men online and most of them
were probrobly old grandpas but lied and said they were 19 or
something. Not that 19 is better. I very soon found out I was wrong
all along. When my brother found out about all of it.
Branden
Laney my brother loved playing minecraft and still does. I was the
only child in my family to have a computer at the time so he always
asked me if he could use my computer to play minecraft on it with his
friends. I told him he couldn't several times but, because i'm not
the type to bring the computer into the bathroom with me I left it on
my bed while I went to the bathroom and my brother went into my room
to use it. I am sure you know what he saw. My computer had a virus on
it so all he saw was a lot of porn and shit popping up out of nowhere
every split second. That is how bad the virus was. So of course my
brother was super tech-savvy he made a deal with me, if I let him fix
my laptop and play minecraft then he won't tell my parents what he
saw but, because what I saw was so bad he gets to tell my sister
Allison Laney who he can't promise won't tell my parents. So I am
dumb enough, I was also terrified. I said yes to the deal. He sent
pictures of the screen to my sister and spent the rest of that night
arguing about whether what I did was so bad that my sister should
tell my parents. I ended up winning the argument surprisingly.
The
drama wasn't over though. The next weekend two of my cousins were
spending the night at our house in Maple Grove and I wasn't totally
convinced that Allison and Branden weren't going to say anything. I
was paranoid almost the entire night and still to this day my cousins
don't really understand why I was. Allison and Branden never said a
word to them. I just assumed they did because my cousin Willow was
making jokes about sucking a banana and stuff so I thought that she
was trying to make dirty jokes so that I would feel uncomfortable but
really she had no idea what had happened. I just wish I was smarter
in the 6th grade and was able to keep it all together because my life
would be perfect as far as i'm aware if I could just keep calm. My
brother Branden was going to keep his word and not tell my parents
but, I lied to them and just made things worse.
I
was so paranoid that I told them that a guy at my school emailed me a
whole bunch of porn and stuff and I had to download it all and watch
it then send pictures of myself to him or he would tell the whole
school what a whore I was. That was only a lie I made u though and in
my eyes it was better that watching porn on my own free will but, my
siblings new better and Branden showed my dad what I said during
dinner and he asked me for my phone and called me into his bedroom
and we had an hour long chat about why lying is bad and why watching
porn is bad and all of that. I was just ignoring most of the
conversation but that story that my dad told me about him lying when
he was a teen keeps playing through my head each and everyday of my
life. I can't get him out of my head. This was the week that made
the rest of my teenage years a living hell.
I
know I wrote this story in a large scatter but, I will fix it later
and put it in a better sequence. It is just easier for me to write
when I just type words onto the page until I can't think of
anything more to say.
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