"I’m a square on the damn chessboard, just background to the actual fight. I want to be a pawn, Challoner. A pawn isn’t powerful, but they can be dangerous.”

— Apr 19, 2016 11:15AM Add a comment

kimberly_rose is 95% done

What an exciting climax! At first, I wondered if it was realistic for someone in an abusive situation, with learned helplessness since age nine, to be so brave, so strong, but then I remembered he did have unconditional positive regard/love from 0-nine, AND... another Bruce Perry thought: "it is often when wandering through the emotional carnage left by the worst of mankind that we find the best of humanity as well."

— Apr 14, 2015 02:05PM Add a comment

kimberly_rose is 71% done

Ah, awareness and sometimes painful decisions only mean we're awake, growing, and alive.

— Apr 14, 2015 01:12PM Add a comment

kimberly_rose is 52% done

This pwrful scene remnds me of what I read in Boy Who Was Raised As a Dog: yanno the fight or flight response, eh? there is a 3rd option for a human brain: when incapable of those two, disassociate. Found in children (no schema), in females more than males, and in ppl with learned helplessness; they remove their minds from a sit., make themselves small, cry/try to get the attn of someone stronger, hope for a miracle.

— Apr 14, 2015 10:18AM Add a comment

kimberly_rose is 50% done

Just found out the reason for the title and it is APT.

— Apr 14, 2015 10:11AM Add a comment