00:00I start singing. My dad realizes that I have a talent and now all of a sudden I was the
00:05performer
00:05in the house. And this happened everywhere I went to the point where I had so much anxiety
00:09that I started feeling physically ill. I started hating the fact that I had this ability that he
00:15saw. I started battling with him a little bit. The criticism grew. As I get into my pre-teens,
00:20I'm starting to get more defiant. I'm seeing what's going on. I'm not being quiet. And that's
00:24when the dynamic shift really happened with me and my dad is that the second that I really spoke up
00:29and I started questioning his character, everything went to hell. All of a sudden the verbal
00:34my mom started shifting to me and it was relentless. So I would have, you know, maybe two days of
00:41really aggressive behavior towards me and, and verbal bashings and restrictions. And then I'd
00:48have a day as if nothing happened. Everything's fine. Do you want to go play golf? And I'm still
00:53sitting there wounded.
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