Ethnically from Nigeria, born in London,1997 and is the second oldest since my older bro born in 1995, younger bro born 1999 and sis born 2005. Well I guess this all starts from when my parents met in 1993, and they got married in the same year..wtf. Anyway they were going to have a baby in 1994 but they were not financially stable for the baby and didn't have indefinite stay so they aborted the baby which would now be my 21 year older sister. They got more comfortable by 1995 to have my old bro then in 1997 they got their stay. When me and my older bro were toddlers my mum noticed how delayed our speech was. I said single words at age 2 and didn't speak probably till age 4. Even my little bro's speech was delayed they gave us speech therapy at young ages. I didn't speak to people rarely if they were outside my family "similar" not the same but similar with my bros but that's important later on.
Early primary school I was very quiet at school barely spoke and at home I was very loud and annoying with my bros, it was kinda the same for them. Interestingly we had family friends that we were loud with especially me since they came to our house a lot where we are in our element. Later on through primary still very quiet but loud at home, I always saw people outside our family as cleaner and just different I mean we were quite messy as kids even now..but It was more than that, I always saw them as different and I thought my bros did too...Later on in primary I realised my bros started being normal with their friends at school just as loud as they were at home while I was still really shy with them.
In 2005 my mum had treatment for some cancer she had since the 1996/7(my birth so prob caused by me) and my father looked after us and newborn sis while having an affair(didn't know at the time). Mother came back from hospital and father left the house just before autumn of 2005. Mother needed more treatment so we went into foster care throughout 2005/6 which I actually enjoyed as I was young. Back to late primary now I was still very quiet here and cryed like every month but didn't act like this at home.
Secondary school started and was even quieter so but Yr7 was doable. Yr8 was the worst year ever, class bully started saying I smelled like piss, and in a few weeks actually did BUT ONLY AT SCHOOL . In yr7 i could pretend to be in group and watch them talk but couldn't even do this now. Also bullied for having a really flat head. I finally correctly realised I had some sort of mental disorder in yr8 but thought it was autism which it prob isnt. Anyway rest of secondary school and A-levels was being in a group and watching them speak and occasionally chipping in to make me seem normal.
This unknown disorder makes me scared of speaking and being myself to people outside my family, its also what made me stink as I could literally never reproduce the smell at home. My bros are all now very normal they are just as talkative to their friends as they are with me and I know that sounds like well duh, but this is from my dodgey mental disorder prespective. So them being just shy during early childhood while I had a serious mental illness got in the way of the help I really needed since we acted so similar. My mum has been very sick since 2013 and it aint getting better nor worse, so that sucks.
Currently over the last few months I have realised that I shouldn't be blamed for the awkward ways I have acted with people and how quiet I was at school or how my mother always shouted me for being described at parents evenings as quiet or the stink I have outside home. It's this ****ing disorders fault not mine and I have been reluctant to think that all my life. Looking online it looks like I have mostly avoidant personality disorder and some elements of selective mutism but I don't have either of them 100% so I am still clueless to what's wrong with me.I am now currently at uni being very awkward with my housemates, only "friends"(can't real feel bonds with people outside fam as I am not being myself, very stiff) are people that speak to me first and most people don't do that. I am about to start therapy here. Right now my life goal is just to be normal and feel real emotions and have friends I can dance sing and vibe with just like my siblings. That's all