Ian Thomas Treichler

My mother Shelley Lynn Outwater gave birth to me June ninth nineteen eighty at Mount St. Mary's hospital in Niagara Falls New York I am her second son and last child I have an older half brother Shawn Christopher Eager who currently resides in Toronto Canada. My mother and father Charles Llyod Treichler were only married for a few years before divorcing when I was about two years old she currently lives in Hudson Florida with my step father Captain Anthony Herbert Cole. I was raised in western New York until I was seven and my mother married my step father Tony who is from Canada and me and my mother and brother relocated to Mississauga Ontario. Growing up in a country where a lot of people disliked American's was not easy I did not fit in very well and go into a lot of fights with other kids especially some Vietnamese kids I went to school with after making the mistake of telling someone my father was a veteran or the Vietnam war. I was an average student and disliked school in Canada. I felt the schools there laked a sense of spirit compared to schools in the united states there were never any clubs or groups no prep rallies or home coming dances or things of that nature it was more like an institution.
I never felt like I fit in living in Canada I was the only Treichler in the entire country and I had no sense of real family or knowing where I came from. I spent most of my summers with my father and grandparents in what I consider my home town Sanborn New York. I loved it there going to the races at Rasomville every Friday night, fishing at Bond's Lake and picnics on the islands in Niagara Falls. I enjoyed having cousin's my age to play with and living in a small town where everyone knew my parents and grandparents and who I was.
I stayed in Canada until I was around fourteen and started having a lot of problems at school and at home with my stepfather who was an extremely hard worker and actually retired as the Toronto harbor master, only one of two captains allowed to command the flagship of the city the P.S Trillium built the same year as the Titantic, but being a sailor he was a heavy drinker and at times very abusive to my mother and me and my my brother not so much physical but emotional, often telling me I was going to grow up to be a no good bum like my real father who after serving two tours in Vietnam was given a medical discharge due to being a manic depressive with schizophrenic tendencies.
After moving back to United States where I always wanted to be I excelled in school and even made the honor roll. I moved in with my father and grandparents which was kinda awkward at first but nice since they were older and retired and were able to give me a lot of attention. My father had promised staying there would only be temporary and we would get a place of our own together but that dream was quickly cut short after he re-met an old school mate Karen Russel.
My father and Karen quickly got serious, unfortunately she was staying in Dunkirk New York so that summer he was there almost all the time occasionally bringing me but there was nothing for a fourteen year old to do there because she was living on the top of a hill with very few neighbors. With my father hardly home and my elderly grandparents not doing the best job watching me I started getting in trouble with my best friend and cousin Justin, we started smoking cigarettes and sneaking out at night to run the streets and get into mischief.
That all came to an end quickly when my father and Karen decided to move in together at her actual home in Amherst New York where once again I didn't fit in and having Karen trying to act like a mother to me and tell me what to do and how to act only lasted a few months before she convinced my father to drive me back to Mississauga and drop me off on my mothers door step without so much as a phone call.
At the age of sixteen I was once again back in the country I never felt comfortable in and quickly started smoking cigarettes to try and fit in with some of the other boys in my neighborhood soon I graduated to smoking marijuana and found a new confidence in myself, it seemed when I was under the influence I was funny and always the center of attention and people seemed to actually want to hang out and spend time with me. I dropped out of school half way though my eleventh year a got job as a plumber's apprentice and enjoyed traveling to different work sites throughout Ontario. I worked there for several years and bought my first car a nineteen ninety eight Monte Carlo Z thirty four.
I absolutely loved that car and did a lot of customization's to it from the wheels to the windows and an amazing after market stereo system with two twelve inch sub woofers and a thousand watt amp. Unfortunately I was driving to get coffee for myself and my boss one day and a Mississauga Tranist bus pulled out right in front of me and the car got totaled and even though it wasn't my fault I couldn't afford the three hundred plus insurance they wanted from me after so I decided to move back to the United States.
My grandparents left me move in to get on my feet but shortly after my grandfather passed away and I decided to stay with my grandmother to help her out with the house and emotional support. I lived with her for a few years before she got too old and needed more help then I could offer so she moved into a nursing home near Rochester where two of my aunts live.

This is my about two thirds of my life and about my life up to my early twenties I could go on well over the thousand words you asked me to write but I figure ill be in your drug court for atleast another year or so and hopefully I wont have to write anymore essay's but if I do and you give me the chance to write about myself again ill continue where I left off and tell you about the last ten years of my life from depression to drug use to sobriety to fatherhood and what led me to getting involved in your court.