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Una-Jane Winfield's avatar

The details which the mother (?) notices are subtle but significant. When you love your child/husband you notice even small changes.... and she writes in sparse, accurate prose. It is all awful, but writing in clinical detail is so, so important. Thank you!

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Grandma Eileen's avatar

As parents we want our child to show responsibility, and we want to trust them. We spend every day for years showing them how to live, how to act, how to care for themselves, and how to treat others by setting the examples. When my daughter was a teenager, she was sneaky, defiant, rude, and withdrawn. I was so frustrated because I was a good mother and practiced what I preached, and I did not set these negative examples. She had been sexually abused, was being bullied, and she was using drugs and alcohol to cope. She did not care about her future as she was suffocating in her day-to-day miserable existence. It was very painful to watch her struggle. Therapy helped and then didn't. She finally dropped out of school and got away from the bullying. She got her GED and started taking classes at the city college. She finally found her courage and strength and marched on into the future to her own drummer. I am 100% sure that if transgender had been the "in-thing" and she had been exposed to it she would have dove into that rabbit hole headfirst without a second glance. I am grateful we were spared what all of you and even my own sister has gone through. I read these PITT stories, and I think about my nephew, and I remember how he acted and how he treated my sister and her husband. I still find it shocking that he actually got caught up in this cult, but he did. I enjoy your writing style, and I eagerly wait for the next chapter. There is, however, a sense of doom looming.

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