00:00I was at school at I don't know how old I was a couple of years after the abuse and
00:05then I was in
00:06English class and they gave us an assignment to do in the class and it was to write out a
00:10short
00:10story. In class I wrote out a short story about a boy being abused by someone in the family and
00:16I
00:16handed that in at the end of the class. That then triggered this whole sort of school counselor
00:22you know all that sort of stuff to happen and this was after my step-granddad had passed away
00:26because he died about a year or two after the abuse stopped. I ended up having a school counselor
00:31I don't remember any of the sessions that I had with her but as I got older I moved out
00:36of home
00:36when I was 19 and my dad his problems started to get really really bad and every time that I
00:42would
00:42see him and he would come around to my house he'd be. It was a few months after he passed
00:46away I
00:47watched an interview on I just come home from work and I was on YouTube and there was another
00:51interview he was talking to this guy named Patrick Bet David and he just brought out his new book
00:56and Patrick said to him like why did you write this book and he said because and this is Lewis
01:01Owls is like because I was when I was a child and I grew up wearing masks and that was
01:05the first time
01:06I heard someone say something like that out loud and articulate it and it kind of stopped me in my
01:11tracks and forced me to probably for the first time in my life stop and confront the very thing that
01:16I
01:16had been neglecting and I said to myself what should I do about it so I waited for my girlfriend
01:23to come
01:23home from work that day and we went on a dog walk and I broke my silence to her that
01:27was welcomed with
01:28open arms too
01:28open arms too
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