My First Blog Post
- DrapPep
- Aug 9, 2024
- 3 min read
I have thought about starting a blog for so long that I thought I would never actually do it, but here we are. My first blog post!
A few things I want to point out: I am using ChatGPT to help me with spelling, sentence structure, and occasionally making sense of what I'm trying to say. But other than that, these are my own words, and I feel it's important to point that out. I feel like I'm cheating in a way, using AI to help voice my words, but there are a few things about me that I don't normally let people know.
I’m dyslexic, and with that, just reading can be challenging at times when all the words start to get mixed up in my head like the game Boggle. This also means spelling is no walk in the park for me. In fact, I was never properly taught how to spell in school. Every word you are reading is either memorized by me, or I rely on muscle memory to figure it out while I type, or I let something like AI spell-check for me so I don't need to worry about it. It’s such a joke that I'm 32 years old and I have no clue how to spell. It's as if I was destined to just be a screw-up. But I digress.
I plan to make weekly, if not daily, blog posts. I hope to stick with it and keep working hard. I want to talk about what's going on in my life. My website and Discord are not being used very much, so I thought a blog for both my website and Discord server, known as the LOAF, would be fitting. Only time will tell if it will actually matter in the end. For now, I just wanted to make a blog to start things off. I wasn't thinking of making it a long post for my first time, meaning my next one will be much longer. But it's only the beginning, and I have a lot more to say.
I was born on October 21, 1991. I would have loved to have been born on Halloween, but life just did not have that in the cards for me. It's funny; you can make plans for life, but it's life that has plans for you. This is something my mom and dad found out very quickly when they realized I was on my way into the world and that I would be born with autism.
My mom did her best to raise me, and my dad worked hard for a printing company, something he did not enjoy doing but it put food on the table. My older sister, being ten years older than me, had the permanent job position of babysitting me, a job I did not make easy for her. Growing up, I was a little stinker, getting into trouble and wandering off away from my mom. I just couldn't help myself; I would get curious and want to adventure. My mom did her best to make holidays memorable, along with my birthdays, and she even put me in the Boy Scouts. Once I was in high school, I did wrestling as a freshman but then dropped out to pursue music. I played the bass guitar for many garage bands all the way through high school.
In 2010, I moved to Oregon for five years with my dad, and then we moved back to California when our money started to run out in 2015. We also worked at a car wash in 2015, and it was around 2016 that I wanted to start a YouTube channel. In 2017, I went to college to broaden my skills in film editing, and in 2020, I reached my first 30,000 followers. The entire time, from 2016 to now, my dad has been my biggest supporter and has kept pushing me to make more videos. He feels that I will be big in content creation, and even though I lose sight of that, he always keeps pushing me to make more. Even when I tell him I should get a job, he tells me YouTube is my job and I need to keep working at it. He has supported me so much, and for him to keep pushing me to keep doing YouTube is what keeps my spirits up high. Even when I receive bad comments on my videos, or when people tell me my videos are not funny or that I need to quit, my dad laughs the hardest and watches the longest to each of my videos. And that's all I need to keep going.
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