In the Dream House

trauma-and-survival

• I could sit there on the floor and cry and say anything I liked because in that moment it was my own little space, even though after that it would never be mine again.

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• There isn't a lot of writing about queer domestic abuse and sexual assault. But what I did find kept me going.

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• There are four lights. Picard squints against them — lying on the floor, mumble-singing a folk song from his childhood.

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self-and-identity

• I broke the stories down because I was breaking down and didn't know what else to do.

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• You wonder if you will ever be able to reconnect your brain and body or if they will forever sit on opposite sides of this new and terrible ravine.

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shame

• Disordered — a word your oldest and dearest friend used when you came out to her. Before the end of the next paragraph you were already crying.

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