It doesn’t warm my heart; I think it’s absolutely revolting to put a child that young under that kind of pressure and scrutiny - even adults struggle to cope with that level of perception & fame, and she didn’t CHOOSE THAT LIFE: it’s gross and tacky to do this with your child
I found it too triggering to read all of these stories, but it feels like a betrayal of the victims not to do so. This is insidious, overwhelming. How do we stop it? How do we protect those children, and the broken adults they become?
Another vivid memory from my own university interviews, applying for creative writing courses - one tutor said “I read your body of poetry, unfortunately; you make Sylvia Plath look like Enid Blyton, the angst is so significant!”
Which I still take as a compliment 😌
I’m 40 now but still remember the guest lecturer in 6th form who was talking to us about our university application letters; he said the most memorable he got was a young man who just wrote “I am very boring” - and they decided to interview him because it seemed a very bold and risky…
I have endometriosis and luckily none in my eyeballs (ffs) but I do have a few patches of the endo tissue on my skin which flare up regularly, bleed, ooze and scab, and are ITCHY AS ALL HELL
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