everybody has a story what chapters would your autobiography have?

[autobiographer]

Changed my name for this, because some information is private. I often think I have had a very interesting life- I think lots of people do. So many "celebs" cash in with really not so interesting lives. Here is some of the chapters my autobiography would have

Parent working class, but both very successful professionals, from a time when social mobility was possible -father got top grade in top uni. Refugee mother first women in her field

born in London, first of 4

violence and crime in extended family, parents emigrated to south America to safety, raised in various south American countries for primary years.

returned home when violent relatives were in prison

One got out and we got caught up in drug gang wars, one relative killed,

Other side of family are immigrants, witness to racist killing of one relative aged 12

I ran away and lived rough aged 14 and 15, still attended school, most days, looked after by school librarian kept a toothbrush for me, washed my clothes and provided toast. - returned home when father died and mother became disabled, and became guardian to younger siblings

lucky, most violent offender died suddenly, 40 years later, still closely involved with violent drug dealer of my own generation, who I love dearly

dyslexic and dyspraxic, many accidents

decided early on against relationships, so set out to find men to get me pregnant - had daughter then twin boys as single mum - deliberately. Later fostered many more, mostly disabled children

have worked in refugee shelters and homeless shelters, and prisons most of my life

have lived and worked in 4 other African and European countries - with my children during their primary years

Have survived "most likely terminal" cancer in my 40s

Children are now a software writer, a child psychologist and a carpenter.

Now 60, Rich and comfortable - still in love with my violent drug dealer cousin, who will be out of prison again shortly -

There is more! of course there is more! At the heart of many extinction rebellion protests, and have stood for parliament..... and there is more too, but anyone who has read this far, then you have read more than enough!

I was choosing a big on "Audible" last night, and really - some of the autobiography books that some "clebs" are cashing in on "my battle with ADHD" etc, I just think their lives are really boring

o I was quite a successful burglar at one point. Not proud of it now

You should definitely write your story!
Mine is really boring in comparison, although I think that with the right ghost writer everyone's story can tell us something.

What I don't like about celebrity autobiographies is that they never explain HOW they became successful. It's always something like 'I took the bus into the city and became tea boy at the TV station and before you know it I was main presenter'.

Your story sounds really interesting and worth writing, even if just for future generations of your family to read.

thank you!

I'd like to hear some other life stories, I am sure that everyone has an interesting past in some way. Some quiet unassuming MNers have probably got hidden wild backgrounds!

I would love to read your story op, you should write it.
Mine wouldn’t be interesting. If I had to do it at gunpoint it would be a narrative about the way society engages with the past told through the different history-related activities I have done in my life- museums, archaeology, reenactment, writing historical fiction. It would show how we create history and at the same time use it to create our own identity at a personal and societal level.
I think yours is more likely to be a bestseller 😉

I think yours sounds very interesting, and very deep