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“He took responsibility for everything that happened to him- a burden I cannot imagine and an illusion of control that must have been crippling.”
― They Called Us Exceptional: And Other Lies That Raised Us
― They Called Us Exceptional: And Other Lies That Raised Us
“It’s a strange thing to miss someone who is right there. When I talk to you is when I miss you the most, because I am confronted by what I cannot have.”
― They Called Us Exceptional: And Other Lies That Raised Us
― They Called Us Exceptional: And Other Lies That Raised Us
“I saw that learning how to love myself was my salvation, a rebellious act of refusing to believe I was what white institutions or Papa had wanted to reduce me to. To love myself was to accept myself as I am and to live in away that honored my feelings, aligned with my values and trusted my senses even when the outside world wanted me to doubt or shrink myself. Therapy became a place not for repair but for the formation of a relationship with someone who helped me see that I am already whole.”
― They Called Us Exceptional: And Other Lies That Raised Us
― They Called Us Exceptional: And Other Lies That Raised Us
“I had wanted to think that fame and wealth- conventional notions of success- didn’t matter to me anymore. But they did. I didn’t get approval from you or Papa or Yush, and the desire to be validated was so deep in me that now I sought it on an even larger stage: the whole world, demanding that everyone look at the very thing that no one in our home could acknowledge- my perspective. But now I could see that, while the world loved what I did, it still didn’t love me. I didn’t know what to do with my ugly desire for validation or the world’s ugly response to it.”
― They Called Us Exceptional: And Other Lies That Raised Us
― They Called Us Exceptional: And Other Lies That Raised Us
“I want you to really think about why you’re going. I want you to reconsider. What do you need right now? What support would you have there? What are your reasons for going?
It was an alien line of questioning: so much “me,” so much “I”. There was not supposed to be an “I” when thinking about our family. Besides, what kind of daughter demanded space from her parents at a time like this?”
― They Called Us Exceptional: And Other Lies That Raised Us
It was an alien line of questioning: so much “me,” so much “I”. There was not supposed to be an “I” when thinking about our family. Besides, what kind of daughter demanded space from her parents at a time like this?”
― They Called Us Exceptional: And Other Lies That Raised Us
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