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Bluelighter
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Hello everybody, I have used this site for a fair amount of research lately and thought I should join and introduce myself.
I am an old bloke, 42 years old. The first thing I will say about myself is that, due to an accident in 2008 I am totally blind and navigate the net using a screen reader so please grant me a bit of understanding if I should mess up with a double post or post in the wrong forum or anything like that, it shouldn't happen but I can't garuntee it.

I tried to post up details in my profile but had issues so I guess I'll give a basic outline here.

I started smoking pot when I was 14 or 15, honestly I can't remember, at 16 I got myself expelled from high school.

At 17 my parents bought me a drum kit hoping a hobby might divert me from the path I had started down with drugs.

At 18 I got into my first band, the music scene however did not turn me away from drugs, funny that.

On my 20th birthday I tried heroin for the first time.

By the age of 23 I was in prison for a 2 year holiday.

When I got out I went straight back to the gear, and with 2 and a half years of parole left I knew I had to do something so I went on the methadone program.

This did keep me out of prison, however I am still on the program today, I have never been of it, today however I am on suboxone.

2008 was the year my life changed forever, I became interested in chemistry and started experimenting at home with energetic materials.

I made ATP, HMTD, MEKP, NC, NG, ETN and was having a lot of fun.

I started to really take it seriously and enrolled in a local TAFE to do my senior with a goal of getting into university and trying to make a career out of chemistry.

Things were going well, topped the class in my first chem exam on atomic theory.

On April 27 of 2008 I took a device I had made into bushland to detonate and long story short it detonated while I was lighting the fuse.

I lost 3 fingers on my right hand and also lost my eyesight.

It took a while but I have fully come to terms with my blindness and have a good quality of life.

I still play the drums, I have a Yamaha electric kit that I love.

I am also as I mentioned still on the program and still dabble in a few substances here and there.

I have a lot of experience with opioids, having used most though not all of them over 22 years, infact over my 27 years of substance use/abuse there isn't much I haven't tried.

Hopefully I may be able to contribute to this site in some way.

So that's my story, or at least part of it.
 
Welcome to Bluelight!! You have quite an amazing story. Very glad to hear you've overcome your disability; I can only imagine how difficult that must have been. That's awesome that you still play. Music is one of my passions too, I play guitar. Anyway, welcome and enjoy, Bluelight is a great community.
 
Thanks for the welcome RDP89.

As I read through my post again and your reply I noticed an example of the issue I eluded to regarding my screen reader, I have no idea how the "middle finger" icon managed to appear on my post, I did not mean to do that, hope nobody took it the wrong way.

Once again thanks for the welcome man.
 
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