The Rejection of Fear
5 min readMar 30, 2019
The last thing I wanted was to become like my mother.
When we’re very young, we typically aren’t capable of distinguishing normal behavior from abnormal; we simply haven’t had enough life experience. Even at six years old, however, I knew that most kids’ mothers didn’t lock themselves in their bedrooms for 12+ hours, leaving their eldest children to care for their younger siblings.