jwaneeta

The fiction is: that kids who are so used, and survive it somehow, are psychotic. Untrue. Kids are almost inhumanly strong. It takes a good deal more than attempted murder to make a healthy child mind psychotic. If the child had inherited a genetic weakness or schizophrenia, well. But a normal child mind sorts trauma into neurosis and becomes, if anything, an even weaker and more law-abiding member of society, in order to separate from the Murdering Other.

I'm very glad to see someone point that out. (No, you don't know me, I'm just bored and reading Friends of Friends)