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This is a weekly, curated listing of Kickstarter tabletop games projects that are either:

• newly posted in the past 7 days, or
• ending in the next 7 days (starting tomorrow) and have at least a fighting chance of being funded.

All board game projects meeting those criteria will automatically be included, no need to ask. (But the occasional non-board game project may also sneak in!)
Expect new lists each Sunday sometime between 12:00am and 12:00pm PST.

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Project Info	Status	Backers	Avg Pledge	Ending	Comments
Ultimate Troll - a chaotic card game of hoarding loot Ultimate Troll is a quick and chaotic card game for 2-4 Trolls looking to ruin someone's day. \nThere's no time for playing nice. (Has currently earned $6,438 of $3,500)	183% funded	225	$29 AUD	04-17	kicktraq
Foundations 4: Rise of the Mimics Foundations 4 Rise of the Mimics! Perfectly nasty little creatures for any tabletop gaming experience. (Has currently earned $33,379 of $2,000)	1668% funded	599	$56	04-17	kicktraq #minis
Wreck Age: Post-Collapse Vehicle kits Resin and pewter 28mm vehicle kits (suitable for 28-35 mm) for gaming, painting, collecting, and all post-apocalypse aficionados! (Has currently earned $11,466 of $10,000)	114% funded	145	$79	04-17	kicktraq #minis
Bloody Monday, Napoleon at the Gates of Moscow The Battle of Borodino, Sept. 7, 1812 was the single bloodiest battle of the Napoelonic Wars. Now you can game it in under three hours. (Has currently earned €21,045 of €8,000)	263% funded	183	€115	04-17	kicktraq
878 Vikings - Invasions of England Gain fame, riches and a new home as the Vikings voyaging to England, or defend your Kingdom and Christendom from the pagan hordes! (Has currently earned $466,334 of $20,000)	2331% funded	4591	$102	04-17	kicktraq
Matryoshka Collect, trade, and negotiate your way to gather the most valuable set of russian nesting dolls! (Has currently earned $6,519 of $6,500)	100% funded	360	$18	04-18	kicktraq
HexBay: X-Wing miniatures storage solution! High quality, 3D printed, interlocking, stackable and future proof cases for your X-Wing collection (Has currently earned $9,875 of $3,600)	274% funded	66	$150 AUD	04-18	kicktraq #bling
Dice Towers - Dinosaurs Exclusive Edition Looking for solution to roll your dice with style? You found it! (Has currently earned $1,525 of $2,000)	76% funded	28	$54	04-19	kicktraq #bling
Vikingar: the Conquest of the world – Board game Viking theme Board game for 2-4 players with outstanding Arts and Runes throwing. Where you play as Viking: exploring, fighting... (Has currently earned $63,998 of $55,000)	116% funded	669	$96 CAD	04-19	kicktraq
18CZ Buy shares of 15 different railway companies in Czechia and build the best railway network. With a special design for 2 players! (Has currently earned €47,580 of €11,000)	432% funded	357	€133	04-19	kicktraq
Noir World Noir World is film noir, powered by the Apocalypse. It's a game of emotion, tragedy, risk, and relationships. (Has currently earned $24,603 of $3,000)	820% funded	817	$30	04-20	kicktraq #rpg
XYbrid — A monster-building transparent card game XYbrid is a card-drafting, light strategy game in which players craft monsters in a competition to become the most infamous scientist. (Has currently earned $17,495 of $14,500)	120% funded	478	$37	04-20	kicktraq
Sword's Edge, the Tabletop Role-Playing Game The proven role-playing game system updated and streamlined for faster action while preserving the evocative character creation system. (Has currently earned $2,150 of $2,700)	79% funded	103	$21 CAD	04-20	kicktraq #rpg
Mutant Crops - Quick Worker Placement Tabletop Game In a near future, our crops mutated into carnivorous vegetables. As intrepid farmers, we will tame them for a lucrative business! (Has currently earned $10,517 of $10,000)	105% funded	314	$33	04-20	kicktraq
Prince's Gambit Casual Vampire Card Game Maneuver for position in the court of the vampire Prince in this fast-paced, casual card game in the world of Vampire: the Masquerade. (Has currently earned $31,223 of $7,000)	446% funded	1162	$27	04-20	kicktraq
Rites of Cthulhu - The Card Game An Unnamable Twist On Traditional Card Play (Has currently earned $4,074 of $1,000)	407% funded	179	$23	04-20	kicktraq
Beast Masters: The Dice Placement Game A dice placement game for 2-4 Players, of fame and fortune, themed from the nostalgia of Pokemon, Digimon and Monster Rancher. (Has currently earned $5,806 of $4,450)	130% funded	88	$66	04-20	kicktraq #take2
Classic Dice Set Classic Dice Set (Has currently earned €2,335 of €2,000)	116% funded	29	€81	04-20	kicktraq #dice
Aeon's End: War Eternal A cooperative deck-building game of post-apocalyptic fantasy survival. (Has currently earned $306,540 of $30,000)	1021% funded	2935	$104	04-21	kicktraq #expansion base game
The Island of Doctor Necreaux: Second Edition Infiltrate Dr. Necreaux's island, rescue the scientists, and save the world! A cooperative pulp sci-fi adventure game. (Has currently earned $12,616 of $15,000)	84% funded	281	$45	04-21	kicktraq #2.0 1st ed
DAGZ - It's a lot like Bags but with Dice. It’s the fun of the outdoor game of bags but with Dice and a much smaller scale making it portable and perfect for indoors or outdoors. (Has currently earned $3,473 of $5,000)	69% funded	31	$112	04-21	kicktraq
Gascony's Legacy: The Legend of the Three Musketeers Gascony’s Legacy is a 1-4 player cooperative tactics game that pits The Three Musketeers and friends against the darker side of France! (Has currently earned $23,200 of $15,000)	154% funded	211	$110 CAD	04-21	kicktraq
King Eddy Board & Beer Game Everyone knows that 'Ring of Fire' is one of the best drinking games. We took that game and made it even better! (Has currently earned €2,170 of €2,000)	108% funded	83	€26	04-21	kicktraq
Dump the Trump – A card game about lies and deception It's your job to stop Trump from gaining ultimate power. How? By lying to friends and allies, of course. Just like The Donald does. (Has currently earned $6,435 of $10,000)	64% funded	177	$36	04-21	kicktraq
Project Airlock Team survival meets social deduction in this space-themed game of sabotage for 3-6 players. (Has currently earned $7,236 of $1,500)	482% funded	177	$41	04-21	kicktraq
Billionaire Banshee's First Expansion! Hit party game Billionaire Banshee wants to birth new cards (Has currently earned $12,477 of $10,000)	124% funded	347	$36	04-21	kicktraq #expansion base game
Circle The Wagons - Build your pocket-sized boomtown! An amazing map-building game with thousands of combinations in just 18 cards. Plus two new games: Mint Julep & That Snow Moon. (Has currently earned $15,835 of $1,500)	1055% funded	746	$21	04-22	kicktraq
Diced-Strategic Card & Dice Game Diced is a strategic 36 card deck that combined with 2 dice provides for a fast pace game of elimination. (Has currently earned $40 of $10,000)	0% funded	2	$20	05-11	#lolwut
Dicey Peaks A push-your-luck adventure tabletop game for 2-6 players by Scott Almes, featuring a thrilling balance of strategy and luck! (Has currently earned $15,856 of $15,000)	105% funded	483	$33	04-22	kicktraq
Just Survive The Game Use teamwork to help each other stay alive or lookout for yourself and forget your family and friends. (Has currently earned $1,438 of $2,021)	71% funded	32	$45	04-22	kicktraq
Constellations: The Game of Stargazing and the Night Sky Have fun assembling the night sky by collecting the right stars for each constellation. Use your puzzle skills to maximize your score! (Has currently earned $28,660 of $15,000)	191% funded	580	$49	04-23	kicktraq
Take Cover! Sandbag & Rubble Terrain. Hand made 28mm resin sandbag terrain, perfect for all different games and tabletops. Great for Bolt Action, 40K and The Walking Dead! (Has currently earned £1,573 of £500)	314% funded	32	£49	04-23	kicktraq #bling
Bad Words - An 18+ Card Game of Word Guessing Awesomeness A 2-7 player party style game where you try to get the other players to guess your main word without saying the bad words on your cards (Has currently earned $2,755 of $1,000)	275% funded	83	$33	04-23	kicktraq #take3
Safari-Dual capture the Lion similar to chess Capture the opposing Lion or move your Lion onto opponent’s base. Elephants' and Giraffes' dual natures makes the capture a challenge. (Has currently earned $1,488 of $1,000)	148% funded	54	$28	04-23	kicktraq

New This Week

Project Info	Status	Backers	Avg Pledge	Ending	Comments
AcadeCon 2017: Fifth Edition – Tabletop Gaming Convention Join the RPG Academy Faculty and friends in Dayton, Ohio, for the 5th Annual AcadeCon Tabletop Gaming Convention. (Has currently earned $4,912 of $10,000)	49% funded	108	$45	05-16	#con
Aces & Eights: Reloaded, a Wild West role playing game A 2nd edition of the award winning, western RPG from Kenzer and Company. Can also be played as a skirmish-level miniatures battle. (Has currently earned $44,625 of $20,000)	223% funded	373	$120	05-24	#rpg
Affordable Dice Towers And Trays Our goal is to make affordable but efficient dice towers and trays for gamer's. (Has currently earned $832 of $100)	832% funded	15	$55	05-11	#bling
Ascensum - Lovecraft horror card game An innovative card game that senses the cards you play, set in H. P. Lovecraft‘s dark universe and illustrated by Daniele Serra. (Has currently earned €1,685 of €55,000)	3% funded	15	€112	05-27
Bios:Genesis 2nd edition. Begin, evolve, conquer! The origins of life game, Bios:Genesis is back! Legendary designer Phil Eklund returns with a second edition of his hit: Bios:Genesis! (Has currently earned $59,369 of $7,900)	751% funded	1565	$38	05-10	#2.0 1st ed
Bored Room: The Party Game You Get Paid to Play at Work! An ultra-light party game of ridiculous and covert operations, played during work meetings! Score points to win but don't get caught! (Has currently earned $487 of $500)	97% funded	45	$11	05-12
Bridges to Nowhere Strategically draft cards and build your custom bridge to win a lucrative contract in this light, but deep, micro-game for 1-4 players. (Has currently earned $13,769 of $4,300)	320% funded	557	$25	05-11
Burn Out - Fight, survive, evolve! Burn Out is the first expansion for Eden, the post-apocalyptic skirmish game.\nBe careful, the world of Eden is violent and ruthless ! (Has currently earned €42,282 of €10,000)	422% funded	528	€80	05-04
Capere: a card driven strategy game for 2 and 4 players Anticipate, Infiltrate, and Plunder your way to victory as you pit your wits against the caprice of the Gods in this adventure. (Has currently earned $2,601 of $12,000)	21% funded	39	$67	05-10
CHARINGO: Charades + Bingo with a Twist! Act out movies/TV shows for your team. Guess clue before time ends, roll dice & place chip on board. First team to get a bingo wins! (Has currently earned $0 of $25,000)	0% funded	0		05-27	#lolwut
Competition Kitchen: A Deliciously Creative Party Game Competition Kitchen is a party game for foodies. Secret Ingredients + Food Challenges + Your Imagination = Competition Kitchen. (Has currently earned $3,625 of $15,000)	24% funded	99	$37	05-12
d20 Dice Ties Bringing gaming to your dress attire! (Has currently earned $643 of $1,000)	64% funded	26	$25	05-14	#bling
Dead Man's Doubloons A simultaneous action selection game of high piracy: attack, pillage, & board rivals, racing to endless riches on the mysterious isle! (Has currently earned €72,502 of €40,000)	181% funded	1215	€60	05-11
DELTA Game A completely new and unique strategic board game designed by our creative team! (Has currently earned $127 of $120,000)	0% funded	4	$32 NZD	05-15	#hmm
Dinner's At 4:30 Using guile, wisdom, and dentures, prepare yourself... The slowest tornado of chaos is coming! Don't be late... Dinner's At 4:30! (Has currently earned $1,047 of $15,000)	6% funded	16	$65	05-15
Downeast Dealer - Bid, Bargain, & Bluff A card game for friends and family. (Has currently earned $1,908 of $1,750)	109% funded	42	$45	05-10
Dungeon Dice: THE LOST KING and Boxed Game Dungeon Dice returns with a new expansion, The Lost King and a box with room to hold all add-ons. Now there's more dice to love & roll! (Has currently earned $143,668 of $10,000)	1436% funded	1527	$94	05-11	#expansion base game
Dwarven Weeaboos Work together to create the perfect waifu but only one of you can marry your creation. (Has currently earned $465 of $500)	93% funded	16	$29	05-14
Enemies of Rome Lead the legions of Rome through 600 years of history and become the one true Caesar! All others are fed to the lions... (Has currently earned $5,514 of $10,000)	55% funded	72	$77	05-08
Enlightainment - The Game Of Lives. Enlightainment, the game of lives, is a board game based on Buddhist teachings that shows the principles of reincarnation and karma. (Has currently earned $50 of $60,000)	0% funded	1		05-11	#lolwut
Ever After : Twisted Realm Ever After is a Twisted Fantasy Themed Board Game. Players work on their quests while finding who are friends and foes on the journey. (Has currently earned $7,178 of $50,000)	14% funded	102	$70	05-11	#take2
Fantasy Fantasy Football: Draft & Management Game You are an Oracle manager leading your team of powerful and gruesome fantasy creatures through a season of fantasy football (Has currently earned $1,639 of $5,000)	32% funded	48	$34	05-10
Get Off My Land! A game of “Close Quarter Farming” as players compete for limited land and resources. Will you be the most successful farmer? (Has currently earned $38,836 of $28,800)	134% funded	590	$66 CAD	05-11	#take2
God Hates Charades: Wrath Wrath is the stand-alone sequel to God Hates Charades, a pop culture party game! New jokes. Cheaper Price. Even more hyperbolic. SAD! (Has currently earned $2,172 of $5,000)	43% funded	67	$32	05-10	#expansion base game
Good Help the Card Game Congratulations! You've just completed your Evil Doctorate! Now it's time to build your first Monster to start your revenge! (Has currently earned $1,012 of $8,000)	12% funded	28	$36	05-13
KOSMIUM A competitive board game, where bluffing and strategy collide to build cosmic highways. For 2 to 6 players to enjoy in 60 to 90 min. (Has currently earned $2,282 of $21,500)	10% funded	59	$39	05-12
Magitics Step into the arena and let your heroes battle it out for the ultimate victory! Tactical & strategy board game for 2-4 players. (Has currently earned €7,588 of €20,000)	37% funded	105	€72	05-09
Personalised Casino Dice All of the best casinos in the world have their own personalised 19mm acrylic craps dice and now you can too. (Has currently earned £594 of £800)	74% funded	18	£33	05-23	#dice
Petrichor A 1-5* player highly interactive board game of controlling clouds and mastering the weather! (Has currently earned $41,466 of $25,000)	165% funded	803	$52	05-09
QWARKS A game of speed, observation, memory, focus and laughings. 2 - 8 players / ages 8 and up / approximately 20min (Has currently earned €2,218 of €1,500)	147% funded	143	€16	05-05
Runicah Runicah is a competitive set collection game for 2-5 players. Keep your friends close and your Runes closer... or something like that! (Has currently earned £1,782 of £12,000)	14% funded	68	£26	05-13
Secret Unknown Stuff: Escape from Dulce Fight your way through a base full of human and non-human enemies, as you attempt to traverse the seven nefarious levels of Dulce! (Has currently earned $3,072 of $90,000)	3% funded	44	$70	05-15
Shadowrift: Skittering Darkness In this terrifying expansion to Shadowrift, heroes must rise to defend New Haven from new horrors threatening the town from the dark... (Has currently earned $19,599 of $15,000)	130% funded	525	$37	04-27	#expansion base game
SKULL PORT 2-4 player dice game for all ye scurvy dogs! Roll your dice, use your Influence tokens and become the next Pirate king! (Has currently earned $2,867 of $10,000)	28% funded	71	$40	05-03
Soul Wars Trading Card Game TCG i been working on inspired by all the great tcg games i have played over the years and i hope to make a game you will all love. (Has currently earned £26 of £2,500)	1% funded	2	£13	05-11	#hmm
Stars Reach space ship miniatures Stars Reach, pewter sci-fi space ship miniatures by Twilight Game Designs TJ. 3 factions. 15 models. Micro-scale. Use with any rules! (Has currently earned $1,693 of $1,500)	112% funded	16	$106	04-30	#minis
Steal all the Cake A card game of remarkable thievery where you and your friends dispatch hordes of mischievous animals to steal mountains of cake. (Has currently earned €1,920 of €5,000)	38% funded	51	€38	05-11
Talk About It! All-In-One Teen Communication Game The ultimate communication game! These 12 fun games will bring you closer and provide hours of entertainment! (Has currently earned $6,615 of $32,000)	20% funded	68	$97	05-11
The Cash Blaster This campaign introduces the best party game for all ages. Have a cash party with The Cash Blaster! (Has currently earned $291 of $5,000)	5% funded	10	$29	06-10	#take2
THE SAILOR'S GAME .... Sail's Again, CAST OFF Gone for over 30 Years, newly redesigned . . . presented now to the Sailor's of the world, show your world knowledge to win the race. (Has currently earned $361 of $500)	72% funded	3	$120	05-12	#reprint bgg
The Storymaster's Tales: The Dark Fairytales Deep Immersion & Candlelight play. Grimm fairytale cooperative adventure storytelling game. Soundscapes, 3D masks and narrations. (Has currently earned £783 of £5,000)	15% funded	17	£46	05-15	#rpg
The Third Law - THE next generation science fiction wargame Set in 2106 A.D., it combines world class robot miniature figures with cutting edge game mechanics in a fully immersive world (Has currently earned £3,966 of £30,000)	13% funded	48	£83	05-11
Top Hats And Treachery! The fast-paced card game of intrigue, storytelling, strategy and prestigious hotels in the heart of Victorian London! (Has currently earned £3,288 of £5,000)	65% funded	116	£28	05-14	#take2
TsunamiCon 2017 Wichita's Premier Tabletop Gaming Convention Help make our community's 2017 tabletop gaming convention bigger and better than ever, located right here in the Heartland! (Has currently earned $1,945 of $3,500)	55% funded	23	$85	05-16	#con
unPresidented Board games + posters for politics nerds, strategy gamers, and people with good taste. (Has currently earned $2,310 of $130,000)	1% funded	19	$122 CAD	05-26	#hmm
Wages of War: The Uncooperative Siege Game An "inverse-worker-placement" game of medieval siege warfare! Hire soldiers, produce weapons, and attack! (Has currently earned $5,291 of $22,000)	24% funded	119	$44	05-02
Would You Pick Your go-to game for parties or a night with your friends! (Has currently earned $0 CAD of $15,000 CAD)	0% funded	0		06-14
World War Flea Pets and their owners love World War Flea —a fast and fun card game where cats and dogs join forces to defeat an army of evil fleas. (Has currently earned $1,340 of $12,000)	11% funded	20	$67	05-31

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Footnotes

• #hmm means that something about the project seems a little off. Buyer beware kinda thing.
• #lolwut is reserved for projects that seem like trainwrecks. Check 'em out for amusement.
• #take tags are for projects that have been restarted for some reason, with the number indicating what iteration we're currently on.
• Did I miss something? Particularly stuff that might go in the Comments column? Let me know and I'll add it in.

I am not good at writing even though I am an American.... Bear with me.
How to start this? I will make this short as possible. Still it is a story of the abuse I went through. So grab a snack or a drink if you want to read this. Its long. Real long.
My father, mother and I never got along. I was the black sheep when it came to the family mentality. I was a rebel. An outsider. My father would think beating me would set me right but, really it didn't. This began in New York City when I lived around Avenue K.
My first time remembering his abusive ways was when I was a little kid, going to school (P.S 115.) I cried that I did not want to leave on my first day... This embarrassed my parents, so when I got home my father tied me up (Hands and feet), and placed a chair before me. He broke a broom in half. Not the aluminum ones. This is the end of the 80s and the start of the 90s when brooms sticks where still made of heavy wood. He would raise my tied up legs so I was in a L pose with my back on the floor. He sat in the chair and my legs are now between his legs. He used the stick to hit the soles of my feet, as hard as he can. I do not remember what happen after.
Also we had this dirty furnace room. It was tiny with a water heater and other things. I think a air central conditioning unit. He would throw me in there when I do something bad and the furnace would make sounds that I did not like. My father said there is a monster in there lurking and he hoped it eats me. This traumatized me as a kid.
I also remember him holding my head. He is a pretty big guy. His hand did wrap around half my head. He picked me up and smashed my cranium through the dry wall.
Another punishment he does that is a slightly passive was this. Imagine you are made to face a wall. You put your hands high over your head touching the wall and made to stand on one leg... for hours.
Last thing I remembered before we moved to another area was that my father took the same broom stick and beat me like a pinata on my right hip. There was massive bruising there. I was limping. My teacher noticed and suspected abuse when I showed it to her. I lied though. My father made me lie.
Then we moved to Sheepshead Bay. I kind of liked it there. On weekends my mom and I go out. She will check out the fish market, where fishermen sell their catches. However, the abused of course continued. My father slapped me around for playing with a worm. I was 10 at the time and I know now it is normal for boys around my age to play with creepy crawly things. When my father slapped it was not the ones that make your face turn. No. He does it as hard as he can knocking me to the floor.
I misbehaved at school again, and my father woke me up at 1 in the morning. This was my first time being awake this late at night. He asked "You know what time it is?" And I remember shaking my head. He replies. "Its 1 in the morning." and I was confused. As a kid I thought night meant darkness and morning means when the sun rises. I remembering replying. "Its not morning. Its still night." I am not sure what what said after that but I do remember my father made me do the hands up and stand on one leg on the wall thing for the rest of the morning until the sun rose. I was tired as a overworked mule when I went to school.
There were fights between my mother and my father. Sometimes the fights got so bad, he spends the night at a friend's place leaving my mother in tears. Sometimes he got physical. Rewind to when I was a child, before I went to school. I remember I saw my first fight between them. I had to be maybe 3 or 4 years old. My mother took scissors out to defend herself and I can tell now my father is holding her back from stabbing him. It was brutal. I was hiding in the shadows, the far side of the living room watching. I did not understand what was happening that time.
When the fight was over my father took her to the bed room and locked the door. I came out of hiding, and saw drops of blood for the first time. It was on the floor. I did not know what it was. I remember thinking it has to be rubies. Like the jewel on one my mother's rings I like to look at when she held me. She wears three rings. I touched it and it was water, and I thought to myself "Water rubies?"
Now fast forward back to me being 10. I was tied up a lot, beaten, punished for the slightest misbehavior. Children around my age love to explore things and touch. My father hated that. When I would go shopping with them I would touch things, to see how they worked. I had a knack for touching things, looking, exploring with my hands. Taking apart my toys and see the inner workings and understand how it worked. It was my way to explore the world. I understood engines and car maintenance at such a young age. My father would take me to the junk yards a lot to look for car parts. As he is busy I would mess around with things. My hands covered in rust and grease.
If I was caught touching things in stores, when I got home I got a beating. Another way, he would make me hold out my hands, palms up. Then use a spatula. He would hold the flat end and hit my hands as hard as he can with the handle end.
I had a hard time focusing, cause of ADHD. My father would give me assignments during summer vacation. Such assignments are like, memorize the capital cities of each country. Where each country is at in the world. Multiplication, division. Making me write everything in a book he highlighted and it was a lot. It was hard. I just couldn't focus. He beat me if I didn't get it done or properly memorized. He will not stop until I was broken in spirit and refuse to get up.
One time he spat in my face for not getting a chapter in a book written down on paper. The mucus was all over my face. When I went back to school new school year, math was getting harder. Words and literature was becoming advance. Cause of this I could not focus. I was placed in special ed for this reason. I was bullied a lot too.
I wanted to be normal. I wanted to be like the other kids. Have a normal life. I even begged my parents to put me on medication to help me... but they refused. Because of the abuse, and how empty I felt, and realizing I wasn't a normal kid at the age 11, I wanted to commit suicide. Some serious people got into this and I had to attend therapy and special classes to deal with this for awhile.
Also my father is a Muslim, and around this time forced me to memorized things in the Quran. He'd tortured me, like placing a pencil between fingers and squeeze down on my hand. I can feel the finger bones around the pencil bending causing a great surge of pain. He'd do this if I get one thing wrong. What is worse, I did not speak Arabic. So to me, I had to memorize gibberish.
Age 12, we moved from New York City to Columbus, Ohio. There is a strong Islamic presence there and my father wanted to be around that. Shortly after the move, my mother who is a Chinese Buddhist converted to Islam. My father got her tapes that talked about the Quran in Chinese, so she can understand.
I was failing at 5th grade, and I did my best, but it wasn't enough for my father ofc. I would hide my report cards and lied to them I lost it. I did not want to show him my failing grades. When he found them, oh I was in for a world of pain. He told my mother to get out of the apartment. She protested but demanded her and she relented. I forgot to mention my sister, she was 4-5 around that time. So my mother took her too with her.
My father went to town on me. Tied me up with rope and tape. Gagged my mouth so I could not yell and started wailing at me with fists. He even picked me up and threw me across the living room a couple of times. Cause my legs and hands are bound, I was like dice getting tossed at a casino. I landed whatever side was facing the ground. He knocked my bottom left canine tooth out.
Thankfully that was a baby tooth. A new one replaced it, and its longer than the others. A reminder where the tooth had broke.
Another time I am not sure what I did, but I remember him tying me up and placing a knife to my throat. Threatening me to slaughter me like a lamb. He has put a knife to my throat so many times. Even now as a adult if my neck and throat is touched by someone, I wig out. I go from 0 to angry and scared when touched there.
Still I got into trouble. Still I was a trouble maker.
Age 15, my parents moved to Florida. In New Port Richie my uncle convinced my father and mother to moved there. Also the Islamic presence there is strong too. So it convinced my parents to move and try to make it work there.
The beatings have almost stopped. Like literally almost stopped. My father worked long hours and only saw him at dinner before I did homework and went to bed. The first time I was able to focus in school better. I was much more well behaved. My self esteem shot through the roof. I made friends. The hot weather, I enjoyed it! My uncle took me almost every weekend fishing. He would even get me rental videos for VHS to watch. ((One video was a anime that show tits. Oh god my parents would have flipped if they saw that))
I was a happy teenager! The higher taxes there made my mother work too. Both my parents are too busy working. I was okay with this as I barely had to spend time with them when I got a loving uncle. I got to spend time with my friends. The only trouble I would get into was messing with fire ant hills as I love pissing those things off. I had awesome teachers at, Seven Springs Middle School. My grades shot up, as well as my mental and physical health was getting better and better. I was tan and lean and was a handsome young man. Everything was looking good for me.
However, it was not to last. We did not stay even for a year. Because how my parents had to work like dogs, they decided to move back to miserable Columbus Ohio. My uncle gave my parents a massive roll of paper to use as packaging for the frail items like dishes and vases. This thing was heavy. I brought this up as this is important later.
In the middle of cold autumn too. The sudden climate change screwed my body up. I got the chicken pox again. So literally I got the chicken pox twice! Once when I was a kid and then as a teenager.
Cause of the school I had to go to, it was in the ghetto. I was bullied a lot. My father is less busy so the beatings came back. I was very miserable. Suicidal. Reckless. What even crazier, my father was a trucker. How he supported the family since I was 11. He take me in the truck on weekends and lecture me and beat the crap out of me while I seated in the passenger seat.
Then this day I will never forget. It's the day that changed me forever and I know it. Big story short, the day I got in trouble for climbing the open cafeteria windows to flirt with some girls eating lunch. When my father got home and heard the news... He loses it. Remember that big roll of paper? Well he took that and threw it on my head. I had to be rushed to the E.R and get 13 stitches. So much blood. I was concussed. Confused.
My mother begged me to lie. So I did to the doctor saying a large china dish fell on my head as I was horsing around.
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The beatings and punishment got worse and worse. My father would make me stand in the middle of the living room all night some days. If I fell asleep on the floor, he'd kick me on the sides like a dog. He prohibited me from moving that sometimes I would be asleep on the floor and I accidentally urinated on my myself. So I had to run to the bathroom to pee out the rest before I made a mess. I would then go back to standing in the middle of the living room in the dark until my body and mind is too tired.
I couldn't take it anymore. I was cutting myself. Shop lifting. Stealing bikes. Causing trouble for the neighbors. Smoking. I was venting my frustration, my anger, and my sadness out by doing crimes. When I steal, I did not steal cheap stuff. I stole gameboys and games. I stole from stores, friends and so on. Each time I did it, I got better at it. I felt hollow inside once again and doing these things made me felt alive. I bury my head in games I stole to drown the world out. Make me forget my problems. My mental problems decline real fast too. I was spiraling out of control.
I was bullied a lot at school, so as petty revenge some of the bullies played football. I would pretend to go home. Once most the students left I would return in different attire I had in my backpack. I would sneak into their locker rooms while they are at practice and my fingers got real sticky for their money. Most did not use locks on their lockers and I did this a handful of times. Cause of this, people wonder who the thief was and no one suspected it was me.
I started to run away from home too. The frequency picked up on the runaways. If I had $100 for every time I runaway from home, I could afford a house or a super car by the time I was 18. I was caught a lot by police and they would send me though different children services. One place I visited more times I care to count was called the, Huckleberry House. A short term living place for troubled children and teens. It was like a short stop so children services can figure out what to do with the children.
Another time I was caught I was sent into a mental ward for kids and teens. Where I was diagnosed with ADHD and bipolar. The medication help... but just barely.
Then I did the biggest crimes in my life.... I wanted to go back to Florida. I wanted to feel safe and free again. I needed money though. So, one morning I skipped school, and went to a supermarket. I set fire in the car isle where I know all the flammable stuff was... My goal was to rob the registers as people left the store for safety, and use the money to get to Florida.
I was caught.... Police took me home with a court date and everything as there was no substantial proof I did it. They had to look at evidence and footage. My father was at work, and he threaten to kill me as soon as he got home. I tried running away again but my mother blocked the door. I never touched my mother, but in desperation I had to. I pulled and dragged her from the door and ran out.
I was lost and confused and very scared for my life. Night settled, I was still determined to get to Florida. That is all on my mind. Get to Florida and be safe. I felt like I died inside. So night came, and I broke into a small collectibles store. Broke the door window with a log i found, I got in and took the register and got out quick. It was locked, so I took it to a feild and tossed it around and banged it with rocks till it opened. Nothing but change, but I took every penny, nickle, dime and quarter. Then I walked for an hour, and I went to Meijers when they started having those coin counters. I manage to get over 200 dollars. I tried shop lifting for supplies I needed on my trip but was caught.
I was sent to Juvenile jail in the Franklin County District in Columbus. I was let out a few weeks later, given probation for a year with some community service. It was to school, work and back home. Still, I did things if I knew I can get away with it, to feel alive. Stealing. Smoking. That kind of stuff. My father got more violent with me and tried to drill Islam into my head even harder. He thinks that it should help me with my problems. Beatings and abuse still continued and I was powerless.
Then the neighbors kids started to bully me. Beating me up and so on. On the last two weeks of my probation.... I made a Molotov cocktail. I was planning to threaten the bullies with it if they do not leave me alone. Well... they ran away to a cop that was rolling down the streets. Yep... busted. So I was given another year of probation and this time with an ankle monitor. Because I was still causing trouble in school, and I was bullied and I am violating my probation time to time, my lawyer stepped in. I was about to go to Juvenile detention once again, instead she manage to get me into a place called the, Buckeye Ranch.
A place for trouble kids to stay long term to see professionals for help and therapy. First day there, they cut the ankle monitor off. I stayed for about a year. There I learned to improve on my social skills and other things. I was taking my medication and making some strides. My behavior was improving. Because of the lack of abuse, I was happier. Not as happy as in Florida but never the less I felt safe and secure. I still caused trouble but, the stealing has stopped and I stopped smoking. I learn to grow plants, and take care of horses, and how to find a career.
I let out my feelings a lot more. A lot of pent up rage and sadness was in me. Later, time to time I get to visit home on the weekends before I had to return.
When I return I was 17, and my parents bought a house during my stay at the Buckeye Ranch. They promise not to hurt me anymore and things will be better. Boy was that a big lie.
Again the beatings did return and my father had to use more force as I was a bigger guy by then. Also, I drew a lot. And in Islam, drawing people and animals is prohibited. My father would find my drawings and burn them in front of me. So much art I had was lost. So, I kept them hidden. In my room's vent. The vent grill was coming out the floor and was not bolted down. Do I hid my drawings... and some naughty material in there..... What? I was a young man still going through puberty! Sue me!
My father had no idea. He would raid my room invading my private area randomly to search for things but never he looked in the vent. Then I would keep my drawings in a binder, in plastic sheets to protect them. I almost always leave that binder in my school locker.
The house was in Hilliard, Ohio and I went to Darby High School. I realize I was also bisexual around this time. I met my first guy crush there and he liked me back. He given me a necklace of a arrow head and a wolf to show his fodness for me.. My father found this necklace and thought it was offensive to Islam and took it away from me. He later admitted he took it with him on his long haul drives in his truck and threw it out the window somewhere in Indiana. I was devastated. It pissed me off to no end. Another chip on my shoulder I will never forgive him for.
I wanted to learn how to break dance, and I joined a club for that. My father did not approve and wanted me home on time. I defied his orders staying late at school to do activities. I wanted to do something with my life and in a more productive fashion! My stealing days was long behind me. Oh this did not set well with him.
Surprisingly, the day I came out the closet he did not do anything to me. I think the shock was too much for my father to do anything. Instead he tried to talk to me about it. It felt awkward. Strange. To be honest. I was expecting to be buried alive. That was short lived as my father would call me a faggot and other demeaning names cause of my sexuality.
I was a couple of months from my 18th birthday, and on this day was another event that turned me differently. I was practicing break dancing at school with my brothers (close friends at this point) and I called my mother to pick me up as usual. However my father was home early and she said he is coming to pick me up. I did not want to deal with my father because I know he will never approve of me staying after school and lecture me and smack me around. Instead I decided to walk home.
When I got home I wanted to just go upstairs and be in my room. No as soon the door closes my father attacked me. He punched me to the floor and dragged me across the hallway into the living room by my hair. He started to wail at me with his fists. He beat me until he was out of breath. He sent me upstairs, no dinner and after crying for a good hour, I slept it off. Next morning I ran away from home.
Another friend heard the news and told me he knows a family I can stay with a little bit until I turn 18. I took the chance. And for privacy I will say the husband is J and the mother is K. They had three children. Two twins and a young baby that was approaching toddler hood. They had a older daughter near my age we will name her R, who I thought was nice but was a bitch to me.
I took care of the young kids as payment for my stay. Fed them. Babysit. Put them to bed. I had to be careful though as they had a head lice problem and I was letting my hair grow out. I would comb and take care of my hair and check for any signs of lice in my hair. I did get infected with head lice only once and because I caught it early I was able to treat it right away. I was that careful. J kept his hair short as possible, so he can spend time with his girls without worry. The day when I turned 18.... I was free from abuse....
Oh I was so wrong on so many levels.
Living with J and K for awhile... about 6-8 months. I found a guy I liked online that lived in Dayton, Ohio. I went to go live with him and he WAS AN A$$HOLE!... The f%$#er forced sex on me a lot! Even when I was sick as a dog with the flu, he forced me! What is worse... he got another guy and tried to have a three way. This new challenger was even a bigger asshole... but you know what they say about guys with small dicks beings an asshole? It is very true with this new guy. My thumb is bigger than his "you know what!"
One day I had enough. Boyfriend tried to force his way on me, and tried hitting me. I upper cut him in the solar plexus and told him "No!" which made him cry like a little girl as he heaves in pain. Then I dumped him there. When he realize I wasn't going anywhere and I will fight back, he moved out. Leaving me with small dingle dong man.
Also the Landlord was gay with a boyfriend and they were Zoophiles. I walked in one day on him and his boyfriend having sex with a dog! It's. Still. Burned. Into. My. Brain. To. This. Day. God. Help. Me.
Also it was hard for me to land a job too. So I helped by looking after their dog and some other chores. Whatever... I needed a roof. One day the dog got loose when I went outside to do some yard work to earn my keep. The landlord came home and got furious. He started beating me up on the porch for everyone to see! Which later got him arrested.
His boyfriend got arrested too for harassing the police.
His mother later came to kick me out. A friend was helping me pack my things. We told her what her son (the landlord) has been doing with animals and she refused to believe it. Oh well...
I had a friend's mother come pick me up and take me back to Columbus, Ohio where I again lived with my parents. My father was sorry for everything and bought me new clothes and a cell phone. Because Social Media was becoming a thing around this time I had a lot of online friends. Two weeks living with my parents I was stupid to post my new number online and day and night I got texts. So 4 am I woke up to text chimes and I get up to go online to make a post to my friends not to text me on such and such hours.
Then my dad walked in. I am on a computer.... 4 am.... doing nothing wrong.... Yet he lost it. He went from 0 to psycho very fast. He grabs the keyboard and pulls it away from me so hard the cable snapped before my eyes. Time seem to slow down for me there as I witness this keyboard cord just snaps in front of me.
Then we had a shouting match. I realize... "He is not trying to hit me. Oh yeah! I am 18!" So I decided to shout back and we got into our first shouting match. He told me to get the F&@% out and never come back or else he'll call the police. I packed up my things and left him, calling him all sorts of obscenities. It felt gooooood. I was in tears but it felt good at the same time.
I stayed with a friend, until I manage to get a hold of some people I can stay with in Saint Louis, Missouri. They took me in, and lets just say.... their house.... should have been condemned as unlivable by the city ages ago. I am not joking. The basement floods, the house is falling apart. Bugs everywhere. Oh and they let a crazy cat lady live with them with dozens of cats and they were infested with fleas!
Summer is approaching and I am close to the age of 19. Then I met this man who later becomes the love of my life I am still with today. We dated and he shown me kindness and love. Honestly I wasn't use to this. I thought he was trying to butter me up and let my guard down. Sometimes in my head I am like "Okay what does he really want? There has to be something. This is not normal for this to happen to me." But, trust came slowly and I learned to love.
As for the situation I was in that time. I had a minimum paying job that barely covered my part of rent. I was behind. I need new shoes badly as I did not have a car or a bike. So everywhere I go was with my own two feet. When I bought new shoes and my own watch for the first time I earned with my money, she flipping lost it. I tried showing her my old shoes are falling apart. I had them for about 2 years give or take. No she wasn't having any of that. She kicked me out.
Around this time I was having a infection grow under my right armpit. It was getting bigger and bigger each day and turning all sorts of shades of red, blue and purple.
Also funny enough, the house I was kicked out of was condemned by the city three months later and everyone in that place had to move out.
After I got kicked out. My boyfriend got me to stay with a friend who was cool. He was out in Saint Charles, Missouri. Few months later we got our own home. We live together and happily.
However, my father would not let go of me in his clutches. My siblings would find me on social media and beg me to talk to him. I would cave and call and my father would try to guilt trip me into coming home. I would reject his offer and again would go from 0 to psycho that we have a shouting match over the phone. This would happen every two to three months as I tried my best to avoid talking to my family. Each time we talk, he would beckon me to come home and make many promises. When I reject he would mentally and verbally abuse me.
Age 24, my father really hit me in the heart. We got into another fight when I refuse to come home when I am already home with a man I love and treats me well. He knows I like guys and he used that against me with homophobic talk. Calling me all sorts of homophobic names. He finished it off with "I HOPE YOU GET AIDS AND DIE!"
Next two days it really impacted me. I felt shattered. This would go on and on. I would talk to him trying to set boundaries but he kept crossing them.
Also age 24 I got my first car. Even my father was critical, and verbally abusive. He told me I should have given him the money and he will find me a nice car. Now at this point in my life I knew something was amidst. He could have put the car under his name with mine and used it against me to come home. Nope. Not falling for it.
Also I denounced being a Muslim as I want to follow my own path in spirituality. My father and mother do not know this. I know they will both flip out. I tend to keep them in the dark about this.
Age 27, totaled said car in very bad and wet conditions. Got good insurance money out of it, and put it as a down payment for a Nissan 350Z. Again my father became critical saying I am too stupid to drive something that has so much horse power. Still have the Z to this day.
Also I was not being treated for my depression, and over the years I had no clue I was a ticking time bomb...
About 3 years ago, I had a mental break down. My depression got suddenly worse. Depression can not only make one suicidal but also homicidal too. That is what happen to me. I was terrified as I felt extremely suicidal and homicidal. It was not for attention. I felt it like the way I was starving for food or thirsty for water. I wanted to. The urges were powerful. I realize something is very wrong with me. I ask my spouse to hide my handgun. He did at his company he owned. Locked and hidden.
Also his company is protected by fencing and cameras and alarms. So I know there is no way I can find them in case I become more of a basket case.
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I thought it was a phase and I tried to wade it out for 4 days. When I realize I wasn't going to win, I turn myself into the E.R and got into a mental ward. I felt shattered, broken, as if my true kind self is going to fade into the abyss forever.
The next 7 days they concluded I suffered PTSD, major depression and possibly boarderline personality disorder from my past of being abused badly. I was evaluated by 4 psychiatrist. A leader and three students. You know its bad when a psychiatrist (The leader) says "Because of your past Mr. *******, its not surprising you feel homicidal." I was taken back by this. Took me a moment to accept that... yeah it is possible I was feeling this way because of all the harsh abuse I've been through.
Also it did not help I turned myself in at the start of OCTOBER and people were watching HORROR FILMS with blood and people stabbing other people at that ward.
After I got out, I started to see a psychiatrist and take therapy for my BPD. I am taking a a pill to help with my symptoms and I am back to normal... mostly. Still get the urges to maim someone or jump off a building but its very much controllable.
Then my father called, and we get into yet another fight... I had it with him trying to guilt trip me home. When he got angry that I refuse to come home I stopped him. "I know why you are pissed I wouldn't come home! I left you like your father did!" And hung up the phone.
I mean it is true. His father bailed out on him shortly after he was born.
And here is the crazy part. Someone pinch me to make sure I am not dreaming. After that when we talked, he started to respect my boundaries and became more understanding. We do not fight any longer. I told him what I told you reader about my mental breakdown and he feels fully responsible for it. He even brought up Florida. He mentioned he noticed my sister and I were very happy to be there. We were healthier and flourishing. He mention regretting moving from there.
Reader, to me this is very strange. I am not sure if its old age or something with my old man. I am 32 and going to be 33 this summer. There is a little peace and a hint of solace in knowing my father realizes the damage he has done to me. Still, somethings he did I can never forgive him for. I know I given him WAY more chances he deserves. I still do not trust him at all, and I am keeping very cautious. I do however have slight optimism that he maybe changing just a little for the better.
Ah reader, my journey has been hell, but I am happy. Still with the man I fell in love with when I was 19. I have my own car, and trying to open my own small business thanks to the enormous help from my spouse.
To be honest, I want to cut all connections to my father. I want nothing to do with him anymore. Reader, what do you think about all this?

So I don't have too much information and I'm going to start by saying my Mom has had some serious issues with finances and lying in the past, none that I know of too recently but definitely a history enough to where trust is strained. Also I'm on mobile and this is my first post here so sorry for any issues with formatting and the like.
I JUST got off the phone with my mom who told me an old friend of hers had stolen her identity. She said she went to go get some Virginia plates or license or something (she's been in Virginia for awhile after leaving Ohio) and was informed of a $4000 lean on her car. When she was shown the information about it it apparently was from Ohio and the picture for the person and signature on it weren't hers, but she recognized the woman's picture as one of her friend's she used to have in Dayton, Ohio.
She's in between jobs at the moment and wasn't expecting to pay something so unexpected and expensive, and is now worried her car would be repossessed at any moment.
I asked if she had spoken to a lawyer or anyone about it and she said she has and can prove it's not her but that they said nothing can be done besides going after this friend for the money. She also said she can't make payments and that they are demanding the full sum.
This is the information she gave me about it, sorry it's not probably nearly enough but any advice for her would be much appreciated.
But now here's where things get sketchy
This may very well be true, I don't entirely know though and due to her past have reason to doubt it. She said she talked to her Mom, my Grandma obviously, and she refuses not only to pay for it, but to help her with it. She then asked me if I could float her $300. I told her I couldn't, at least for the moment (not because I dont have it but it would seriously put me in a tight spot to be short $300 at the moment, I didnt let her know I had it at all though just said I couldn't). She then got a little upset with me and asked if I could use a credit card or anything to cover it, telling me it was for a $240 electric bill she had been forgetting to pay and some pocket money and told me her electric had been turned off. I dont and never have had a credit card, I know I should but I don't and I told her this. She then huffed again and asked if my girlfriend could float her, to which I said I'd asked but she was at work so I don't know when she would get a hold of her, to which she replied no don't ask, its embarrassing.
So this just threw up a whole bunch of red flags for me given her history. Especially because my brother and I just loaned her $100 each last week for a "dentist appointment" (now I'm wondering if that was true) to which she paid us right back 3 days later when she got paid last Friday. I don't know the entire specifics of her job just that shes a nurse in open heart surgery and makes pretty good money, but also lives a pretty lavish lifestyle that's not over the top just a little "over-spendy." Just the tenacity she was trying to come at me for paying it and that my Grandma refused to even help (not entirely out of character but pretty surprising) just hit old triggers and made me question the whole thing.
So, sorry, I'm also looking for advice for peace of mind that this seems legit. Again I know it's very limited information but any help for her or I in this situation would be greatly appreciated.
tl;dr: Mother may or may not have had her identity stolen, and is facing a repo on her car if she can't pay $4000. Son doesn't know if it's entirely legit.
Some additional information: I'm 26 and shes 54. She has a history of lying, for many things but especially money. She has has had issues with prescription drug abuse (vicodin) and gambling in the past. None of this has come up, at least publicly in the past 5 years or so but I know she still hits the casino here and there and smokes a lot of weed these days (she never has when we have visited or been around her but she always seems to have it and offers it even though we dont smoke).
I know this isnt entirely relevant or helpful just figured it would answer most questions of why I would have doubts.