This essay details many of the impacts of emotionally abusing a child, including discussing intense shame and emotional self-harm in the section titled “My flavor of not good enough.” If you suspect that this will be triggering for you, please take care of yourself if you read it: prepare your…

This essay deals with the results of emotional child abuse. There is only a brief and nongraphic reference to the abuse itself. I’ve spent 7 years in therapy, trying to heal old trauma wounds. This is childhood abuse shit, which means it’s not about external danger as much as internal…

Originally written in the spring of 2017, inspired by the March for Science Disclaimer: I speak for myself: a queer, white, disabled grad student who is seen by society as a woman, an American whose parents both went to graduate school, and someone who has spent many years attempting to…