It’s taken thirty years to clarify this:
Whenever I got beaten up at school, my mum would always ask what did you do to provoke them?
Classic victim blaming.
It wasn’t until a conversation yesterday that the truth was revealed:
She literally, in the face of much evidence to the contrary, cannot imagine a world where people act like dicks and hurt other people solely because they want to.
But she hasn’t seen what I’ve seen.
And it’s taken her this long to realise that yes, I am her son, but there are things in the world whereby not only is she not ready to teach me to handle, but that I could teach her.
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