Growing Up With Weird
Mental illness. I am finding myself stuck on this first sentence as I go to write about something that has impacted my whole life, a shadow that I felt was cast upon me by someone else's demons. Growing up with someone who is mentally ill, I am finding it difficult to speak, and that it in itself speaks volumes, that someone who likes to talk as much as I do, has trouble putting voice to this, because the truth is I always thought I was going to be judged by their damage. Bei