So How Are Your Analogues?

Well, my ATL image is rather bleak:

In most Axis victory TLs my parents were never born. In those they actually were born, they never met each other. I also found that curiously, some Cold War events like Kennedy not getting assassinated, the Soviets not invading Afghanistan butterfly away my own existence as well for some reason: my parents either never meet or I'm not conceived. I exist(ed) in some TLs where the Cold War went hot, but in most of them my life is either miserable or died in young age of radiation poisoning. In most TLs where the Cold War ended similar to OTL, I commited suicide in the late 1990s or late 2000s. I found the only TLs where I'm reasonably well off are those that are near-identical to OTL... kind of frustrating. :(
 
In TL Marcos-6, POD 1986 I'm sitting in Bilbilid Prison after joining in an unsucessful protest against the Marcos regime. Cory Aquino is just down the cellblock.

In TL September-10, POD 2001 I'm still an inveterate liberal, who is applying to UC Berkeley, destined to become the leader of some quasi-radical protest movement.

In TL Independencia-9, POD 1898 I'm the hardscrabble son of a peaseant family, who has a Colt 45 and the mind of a right-wing revolutionary.
 
I haven't been able to find myself in most timelines with major PODs, I'm sure the butterflies prevent my parents meeting, or my birth. However, there are a couple of PODs where I do exist, most are quite similar to OTL, I thought I'd just tell you the most interesting ones.

In TL-Omega 76093 things are pretty much the same as OTL, except Gore won in 2000. He's just coming to the end of his 2nd term, Bill Richardson is his VP, as Joe Lieberman resigned in 2005 due to ill health. There was still 9/11 but Gore only invaded Afghanistan, but not Iraq. However, he is giving support to a new Kurdish guerilla movement in Iraq, which has invoked the wrath of Turkey. I'm pretty much the same as I am in OTL, work for a policy think-tank, have one brother, except instead of getting an X and a Y chromosone when I was conceived, I got 2 X chromosones, so I am a female.

In TL-Beta 67109 I'm part of a survivalist community in what used to be Johannesburg. The Cold War went hot in 1987, affecting almost every part of the globe. South Africa erupted in violent revolution, and I am now living in the Resurrected South African Republic (a rather grand title for an area the size of two large farms, and a population of about 2000).

In TL-Epsilon 42097 I live in a slave labour camp, where I have been living for the past 9 months, following the invasion of Earth by an Alien race, we call Them. Little do I know but I have about 3 weeks to live, as Earth's oxygen content drops to less than 5%, following the aliens' successful attempt to terraform the earth to their specifications.
 
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