Personal Narrative: Growing Up In Iraq

I was born in Iraq in a domestic violent environment. In my second grade in elementary, I and my sister moved to 7 different foster child housing. I had to move to 7 different elementary schools in one year. I was being sexually molested several times by these foster families and emotionally and physically as well. My parents finally were able to get back together and keep us somehow stable till the middle school. My father was kidnapped after 2003 war in Iraq and we had to sell all we have to pay for his ransom and release him free. We run away to Syria after we got my father back and we lived there as refugees till we came to the U.S. in 2011. Growing up in Syria as a gay man was as hard as growing up in the jungle with predators. I was being beat up and raped several times by Syrian regime militias.
My family rejected as a gay man and as a person with AIDS as well. I faced homelessness and hunger on the streets of California. I crushed down and suffered from a major depression and ended up attempting a suicide to end my suffering. After I woke up at the emergency room, I felt as a Revenant. I decided that enough is enough and it's time for me to stand up and face these challenges. I went back to school as a fulltime student and determined to become a chemical engineer. My family took me back to their life and never been more proud of me than ever before. I almost lost everything in life but I gain myself back after being born again. I fought my depression and my AIDS and I have a longer life expectancy more than ever before. I know now that I will live enough to see myself becoming a chemical engineer and change the