Odd thought...
Feb. 23rd, 2003 02:22 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kengrOn a mailing list someone made this comment:
"Someday, the Special People will come and take me away from this miserable home and all the people who hate me because they don't understand me" is one of the most basic, and least-examined, tropes of young adult fantasy and SF (with its roots in ancient myths and faerie tales about changelings and demigods).
It occurs to me in spite of having good reason to want out, I never really fantasized much about that sort of thing. I did escape into books, but I never really saw *me* doing that sort of thing until long after I was on my own.
And I'm wondering if part of the reason for that is that part of the abuse from my mom consisted of making me think that nobody else would *want* me.
I know there are other abuse survivors reading my journal. Does that fit any of you? Or is this just unique to me?
"Someday, the Special People will come and take me away from this miserable home and all the people who hate me because they don't understand me" is one of the most basic, and least-examined, tropes of young adult fantasy and SF (with its roots in ancient myths and faerie tales about changelings and demigods).
It occurs to me in spite of having good reason to want out, I never really fantasized much about that sort of thing. I did escape into books, but I never really saw *me* doing that sort of thing until long after I was on my own.
And I'm wondering if part of the reason for that is that part of the abuse from my mom consisted of making me think that nobody else would *want* me.
I know there are other abuse survivors reading my journal. Does that fit any of you? Or is this just unique to me?
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Date: 2003-02-23 12:33 pm (UTC)Oddly, I never went thru the "I must be adoppted" stage. And when I finally learned that I was (by overhearing my mom talking to someone about something and he said "Oh, I thought only one of your sons was adopted"), it wasn't that big a deal.