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The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture

by Gabor Maté

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Aug 14, 2025 04:58AM

“Your abuser's past does not absolve them of their abuse. Their depression does not absolve them of their abuse. Your relationship with them does not absolve them of their abuse. How long you've known them does not absolve them of their abuse. Your love for them does not absolve them of their abuse.”
― Trista Mateer, Aphrodite Made Me Do It

tags: abuse

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“The skill I was learning was a crucial one, the patience to read things I could not yet understand.”
― Tara Westover, Educated

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“A real choice doesn't have conditions. A real choice is free.”
― Etaf Rum, A Woman Is No Man

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“Whomever you become, whatever you make yourself into, that is who you always were.”
― Tara Westover, Educated

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“The decisions I made after that moment were not the ones she would have made. They were the choices of a changed person, a new self.
You could call this selfhood many things. Transformation. Metamorphosis. Falsity. Betrayal.
I call it an education”
― Tara Westover, Educated

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