sometimes you're just innocently scrolling along down your dash and you read a post and you're just nodding along like "yep, good post"
and then a singular sentence leaps out and catches your throat in its teeth and your breath draws like a knife
because for fuck's sake, that goddamn tumblr post's single goddamn sentence just slapped the realization out of you that, before you had reckoned with how you had been abused and gaslit through your childhood, you used to pre-apologize for what was done to you when you described it to others, so they didn't get the wrong idea and understood,
"i was a difficult child" and that means it was, of course, at foundation your fault
you just never could make it easy to like you, you see, you were such a handful, such a problem child, so hard to tolerate without caveat, so hard to love because of the conditions you failed to meet
and you used to believe that, for so long you believed that, that you, unlike better children, were like playing parenting on nightmare mode
if only you hadn't been so stubborn if only you had just obeyed and not questioned if only you never argued or talked back if only you weren't such a liar, always such a liar
you believed it all, and because the ones meant to shelter and guard and hold you repeated these things so many times for so many years and with such vehemence... it had to be true
and it might just be the most cruel thing that was done to you
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lavender!
i agree! lavender👀👀 (one of my favorite colors)
Anon you're so sweet! face kisses for you<333
Askgame
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This is one of Edwin's most iconic lines, actually.
and I feel we need to acknowledge it more. his bitchiness is on point, but like *respectfully* - it's just so quintessentially Edwin.
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