I have been a long time lurker but haven't posted and honestly this has been a long time coming. I apologise if this is long. 

I haven't had the most conventional life: my parents split up before I was born and we're burnt out before I ever came into the picture (I'm the youngest of a collective 11 children, all from previous marriages). My oldest brother is 19 years older than me and is going on 40 next year while I'm turning 21. Life was a lot of back and forth for many years between my parents. In the span of 10 years my mother had two additional marriages (totaling four) and would often leave me at my dad's house while all of my half siblings were at my mother's. By the time I turned 10 my mom and her new husband decided it would be best to move across the country leaving me behind to live with my father and my only other sibling who wasn't an adult to live with my oldest brother. Later that year my brother offered for me to come and live along with his wife, my youngest brother and himself. Six months later ( I am 12 now) decide it is best I move to Florida to live with my mom. I had never even been out of state and thought this to be horrible. Why take a child in only to kick them out? The reason being I had a lying problem, something I had learned from years of