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>>7473206
Nobody could answer my questions as a child. So I set out to get my own answers.

Turned out most of my research was redundant as other people had already solved these things. But I didn't have access to a college level library or the internet back then so I wasted years of my life independently solving some of the great scientific questions of the past. Then getting rebuked for plagiarism, which largely destroyed my reputation and career options.

It just got worse when I was trying to model nuclear reactions out of boredom and the silly idea I could solve the energy crises. Not having access to a reactor I started working a complex computer simulation as a safer and simpler alternative. Tell some people about my work, few weeks later FBI comes with a warrant. My program is used as evidence I have "misappropriated" nuclear secret. Costly court battle nearly wiped me out and my research and computer was never returned, and that one had a CD write in it which was a big deal back then.

I now work minimum wage in a library likely under government observation as a discredited old cook.