I guess it all started when I was around 4 or 5, I had learned to read at a pretty early age, so my imagination was already sparked. I'm not sure what triggered the MD but it most likely came from many sources at once.  My parents separated 6 months after I was born and my Dad would visit once a year or so, he lived in Europe.  I grew up in a single parent/extended family household, so I was always surrounded by adults most of them much older than me.  I was a lonely child and an only child…