6:53am August 20, 2014

➸ Shout-out to everyone whose childhood was hell.

chaos-under-construction:

youneedacat:

Shout out to everyone who can’t remember back to an idyllic childhood, because that time never existed for abused children.

Shout out to everyone for whom childhood was a never-ending hell with no refuge, anywhere, in sight.

Shout out to everyone who never experienced…

Thank you

Thank you for reminding us that we are better in spite of what we had as a childhood. We have no family and haven’t since we were five or six. We call ourselves street rats for a reason. Juvie and so-called foster care, orphan homes and dumpsters, backyard sheds we could sneak into and the occasional family that saw us, knew we had no place to go and let us stay hidden for short periods of time if we worked. Gaps where we honestly felt like we were transported and ended up in a different part of town with no memory of how we got there but no real change in how we lived.

Until the age of 15 when we found a real foster home for the first time and home school for real learning also for the first time. Does it make sense now to you why we don’t comment on families? Why we can’t comment on growing up and school?

This is why our goal is only to survive because this has been our goal for life since that age of 5 or 6. 

-NV

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