Source: UnusualYoung.com, Tumblr. I’ve been trying to erase myselfBy trying to be someone elseThey say there’s no hope for meI guess this must be hell… – TFK, In My Room “I have to go, my dad’s calling me again.” I head for the door of the campus library. My friend rolls her wheelchair closer toContinueContinue reading “#WhyILeft Fundamentalism, Part 1”
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Emotional Hypothermia, Part 5: This is your life
Continued from Part 4 I remember when We used to drive Anywhere but here As long as we’d forget our lives We were so young and confusedthat we didn’t know To laugh or cry Those nights were ours They will live and never die Together we’d stand forever…- Skillet, Those Nights The first week ofContinueContinue reading “Emotional Hypothermia, Part 5: This is your life”
Emotional Hypothermia, Part 3: The Angry Monster
Continued from Part 2 Content note: self-harm In a group session summer before last with my counselor and my parents, my mom mentioned the time my sister asked her why I was so logical and scientific when one of our dogs was being euthanized in his old age. “How could Eleanor be so cold?” she’dContinueContinue reading “Emotional Hypothermia, Part 3: The Angry Monster”
Emotional Hypothermia, Part 2: Dare You To Feel
Continued from Part 1 “We’re talking about anger here, Fraser, a human emotion.Are you human? Because if you are, human beings feel things, okay?They feel anger, they feel love, they feel lust and fear, and sometimes,and I know you don’t want to hear this, sometimes they even cry.”- Ray, Due South (2.17), “Red, White, orContinueContinue reading “Emotional Hypothermia, Part 2: Dare You To Feel”
Eleanor Skelton 