I AM the dancing queen! To bad mom had to start laughing and ruin my spotlight!

I know lots of you have been asking about where I came from and why I look the way I do. It took mommy a few days because she works and had to get some back history. So here I go. My vet says I am approximately 15 years old (but we will never really know). I am a Goffins Cockatoo and we typically live 40-60 years. I had a daddy a long time ago who loved me very much and I lived with him for a long time and then he died which made me very sad because I loved him a lot. His family did not know what to do with me so I got passed around a lot. I ended up with one family member who put me in a basement by myself because they didn’t like my yelling (I just wanted attention plus you know I am a bird and we do that). They got mad that I was still screaming so they put me outside for a long time by myself in a very small cage with no toys and only 1 perch. They weren’t very nice and would yell and throw things at my cage when I would yell for attention. I stayed in my cage for 5 years and was n