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  • Sadly I grew up in a similar situation, my father was emotionally abusive to me and the rest of the family joined in with him to keep him from turning on them as well, I think. I was fat, stupid, lazy, untrustworthy liar and a bad person. When I was bullied at school, they told me it was my own fault. I didn’t go on to college because they had me so convinced I was too stupid to understand the classes.

    This was many years ago. Basically, I escaped them. I left home as soon as I could, like 17-18 and never went back. It wasn’t easy. There were brief periods where I was homeless. However those times helped show me that they were not only wrong, but that how they treated me was wrong (this was long before the internet existed).

    I earned my associates degree in a stem field when I was 48 and have a really good job now that I am proud of. I’ve gotten farther than I ever thought I would. And I can truly say that I did all of it, with zero help from anyone. I sometimes wonder what I could have been if I had a loving, supportive family.

    It damaged me emotionally in some ways ngl but overall it taught me the value of persistence and not to give up on myself.

    I have gone out of my way to make sure they can’t find me. Someone found me about 10 years ago. To ask me for money.








  • Where I live in the US must be a geographical oddity. I have 2 gig symmetrical ftth service. Not shared. There are three providers offering similar service at my address. And yes, they all each ‘dug up the street’ separately to install their cables. Installing fiber via directional drilling isn’t quite that big of a deal.

    No doubt what customers in Switzerland have available to them as written in this article is better. Don’t know what I’d do with 25 gig but it would be awesome. Just saying the writers should update their information on what is available in the US. Their info is from 10 years ago. They are making a perfectly valid point and don’t need the exaggeration.