00:00At 18 years old, I became homeless due to my family from my father. My mother was in a DV
00:06relationship with my father. She was dealing with a lot of things with my father, dealing with his
00:11substance issues and then also his anger management issues. And it progressed from my father hurting
00:17my mother to eventually hurting me as a child. It just became very hard for us to be able to
00:24acclimatize to his reactions and to his moods because it would just be so randomized. It would
00:29just be like very simple things that my father would lash out at. He's like six foot and he's
00:34like very muscular. And so from my mother and I, he would just use us like a punching bag. I
00:40grew up
00:40with my father always screaming at my mother and beating her and then also like throwing things
00:46at her, breaking stuff in the house. I basically learned school like in a church basement. So I
00:53was very isolated growing up and I didn't know what real life looked like. I was only allowed to like
00:58be home and go to school and go to church and school and church were the same thing.
01:01I went to a Christian camp when I was 12 years old. When I went, my counselor noticed that there
01:07was something wrong with me because I wasn't able to like physically participate in some of the things
01:11because like my body was like hurting from being physically. And so she started questioning me and
01:17I just like innocently like told her that my father and I had an interaction and he was disciplining
01:22me and she asked me to describe what he did. And when I described it to her, she told me
01:27that that's
01:28not normal.
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