The quick headline is ex fundamentalist turned camgirl turned sex mime/acid addict turned cryptoinvestor, but the real story includes a lot of filler episodes where I stare at computer screens and fend off calls from my mother trying to tell me to exercise.
During a truth or dare game, someone asked me what my most proud accomplishment was, and I cited the #1 Gonewild Post Of All Time, which is weird because I put a fraction of the skill and effort into that than I have into other things, which means I just feel pride when lots of people like me. Maybe I should have said 'learning morse code' or something.
I was homeschooled from birth to 12th grade by professionally-evangelical fundamentalist Christians in Idaho, where I did things like 'protest abortion clinics' and 'compete in Bible verse competitions' and 'shame people who read Harry Potter' and 'be wracked with guilt all the time.'
After leaving home, going to college, traumatically losing my faith, being too poor for college and dropping out, I turned to a series of shitty jobs involving windowless factories and waking up at 4am.
I eventually escaped from that into the warm, wet embrace of camgirling, which was, to everyone's surprise, not actually a rebellious act - just a regular ol' attempt to not be poor. I bought BTC around this time but did not consider this a legitimate attempt to not be poor.
I did a documentary or two, got in playboy a little bit, and spent a year doing high doses of acid every week until I almost died.
Eventually (5 years) I quit porn and being the universe, and now I’m working for a blockchain-based dating site startup. Things are moving very quickly and I’m stressed a lot, sort of like skydiving, except instead of the ground the thing I’m speeding towards is “being able to afford a 100% soylent diet.”
My hobbies include ballroom dancing, fantasy/scifi and worldbuilding, rationality (of the Lesswrong variety), cartography, traffic intersections, sweating on command, trying to make people eat nootropics, playing Overwatch, Abalone, and the accordion; painting, typing super fast (I'd love to race you), and drunkenly debating consciousness in dimly lit group houses.
I love Reddit and I love crypto, so I'm really excited to finally join the Steemit community (is it a sin to describe Steemit as reddit+crypto? I've been a sinner a long time so I can't tell anymore).
I've been hanging out in the Steemit chat and so far everyone has been nice and has talked about poop at least twice, which is a really good sign.
Hi Aella great introduction, amazing how blockchain revolution help you out to find out your happiness equilibrium, ride the waves with us steemians, welcome!
Upvoted
Thank you! The blockchain revolution is still surreal. I'm excited to be here!
nice to see you moving in a more positive direction!
Yes, it will change the world ! ^^
Yeahh! The blockchain revolution really is amazing and its nice to see a lot of people trying to understand it and also invest in crypto believing in that technology.
Thank you for helping minnows @damarth ! Good continuation !
Wow, that‘s a different intro and a intersting life story - Guess you can add perspectives we havent seen around here yet!
Gladly upvoted and resteemed your post via @welcoming, my account for sharing promising newcomers!
Greets, @theaustrianguy
Welcome to Steemit, and I wish you brighter future here with us than your mentioned "shitty" jobs!
Hilarious writing. Please blog more!
Hmm pics or it didn't happ...ok well apparently it's legit.
Welcome aboard Steemit!
PS - the "poop" part got me 🤣🤣🤣
Saw your post on Twitter and figured I ought to follow you here also. I may not be the most qualified welcome wagon, since I just have the one post myself, but welcome, I'm excited to see you here!
Since you're in Seoul lately, I hope you'll check out the #muksteem tag before going full Soylent. I think I was hungry when trying to find people to follow, and now my feed is torturing me. I'm sure this site has other great things as well, but that's about 75% of what I've found so far :P
Hey there welcome to Steemit. This is a good place for bloggers, photographers and travelers for sharing their content. I am sure you will enjoy your stay here.
welcome to steemit @aella, best regards..
hopefully you feel at home here. 😊
Welcome to steemit ! Nice paost ! I hope you enjoy here ! will give the vote to you, Please upvote & follow me
Welcome to steemit community, insight, experience and knowledge banayak once here we live just how to take and learn it and you also can share anything interesting to be published in this steemit, salam know from me @teukukhaidir. thank you
You have lived a lot of lives already :) Good to have you here, @aella! Enjoy Steemit!
Wow... What a biography you have there... I'm sure there's more to come through steemit.. Welcome!
Wow you quit porn and start doing what's right for you! Keep it up! Don't let easy money blind who you are.
Welcome to Steemit @aella I wish you a great journay.
@aella
Welcome to the family, may you inspire and be inspired. Voted and followed to get you going.
stay blessed.
wow thats an intense story! thanks for sharing
welcome to steemit!
welcome and may you prosper
Hey Aella! Really nice introduction and its nice of you to share what you have been through! Crypto really has changed a lot of lives and is really amazing to see how it changed yours! Welcome to Steemit! Upvoted and Followed! Excited to read more of your posts!
I've seen you online before. That's dope that you are moving on to a block chain based dating start up. What is your role in the startup?
Welcome to Steemit ! Nice to meet you ;-)
Great intro. I laughed at least a few times.
Welcome to Steemit!
Welcome to the family aella, we're happy to have you and guess what!
You're just in time to join all the special people who joined steemit in 2017 and that makes you a part of the graduating class.
We look forward to hearing more from you :)
I actually joined Steemit in around... I think August 2016! But I haven't been active until now. =)
Welcome to the community Aella. That's quite the journey you've been on so far. I hope that this community can help benefit your life in more ways. I don't think it's a sin to describe it as reddit+crypto. There's a lot more to the blockchain but here just on steemit, it's an ok comparison.
welcome to the platform aella! i was hoping for more drunken rants on youtube from you but i can jive with this
Hi Aella,
Awesome post, sounds like a really crazy life you've lived. I can't wait to hear more!
I'm also a huge fan of fantasy/scifi so I'm looking forward to hearing a bit about that too :p
Check out my blog if you're intersted in health/ science.
-tfc
I saw the gnomes. I’m glad you escaped. That must have been traumatizing. So many of them...