Close Clarity
I entered adulthood wholly uneducated and unprepared for life. I was homeschooled until I was 19. When I tried attending a local university while livi…
Recovery
Groomed
You take my hand And you say you've changed But boy you know your begging don't fool me Because to you it's just a game (You know it's…
Heartlessness and Hate, Part 2
In Christian homeschool speech and debate, we were told that we were learning logic and critical thinking. What we learned was a kind of feigned intel…
False Fame
The one episode of reality TV that featured my family was a much smaller thing than we thought. Shared delusions are central to relationships with abu…
My Homeschool Transcript
I was taught primarily for religious and political purposes, not to prepare me for independence in adulthood. My high school transcript, and the fact…
A Year Spent Surviving
I'm going to keep this short because 2020 has been so chaotic and exhausting, it's taken me several hours to come up with those two words to d…
Future Focus
From what I have read about trauma recovery, the process can take a lifetime. The damage done over decades cannot be overwritten in a few years. I'…
What I Do and Don’t Know
The older I get, the more I realize how inadequate my education was. My writing, my strongest skill, is littered with grammatical errors. I am passion…
The Barriers to Stable Housing
I want to preface this post by saying thank you. You are giving us a chance at a place to live, and you all have been giving as much as you possibly c…