I Made It

Hi, my name is Ashley and I am a survivor. Now I bet your wondering what did I survive from? Well let me tell you how I survived my childhood. Typically you don't hear many people opening up about their childhood if it was bad, but I like to think of it as letting it go. Also becoming free of what made me the person I am today.

Let me take you back, back to a part I don't remember but have been told about many times. I was born on July 30, but I do not know where. My mother's name is Wendy and my father's Dewayne. I have 4 brothers, Zach, Robert, Cody and another brother who I never had the pleasure if meeting. We grew up in a very small trailer that was obviously not big enough for two adults, 3 toddlers, and a baby. It was not even safe enough for us. I have to warn you this journey is not a pleasant one but you have to stay till then end to be satisfied.

My brothers and I were abused by my father and it took a while for my mother to leave him but she did. She the got with a man t