Yet another Netflix documentary I’ve watched and would really want to write about it.

I mean, someone who was taken away from her birth parents, sexually and physically abused all her life till her death at 20 years old, but to everyone who met and got to know her, sees how much potential she has, how kind she is, how smart and how much she would have achieved should she be able to get away from the monster, the so-called “daddy” who later became her husband. It’s almost as if nobody spotted anything wrong with her, until (or unless) they met the “father”. 

What kind of resilience can a person have? To what level? How decide how resilient and strong someone can be in face of this from a very young age? 

We often talk about trauma and how it affects someone – how can someone who was brought up and abused and lived that way… Be so strong, kind, smart, focused, succeeding, socialising etc? How? How do we raise the next generation, okay maybe I’m being too greedy, but a child like that? 

Anyway, it can be distressing watching documentary like this, knowing someone had gone through awful things. But it really made me wonder…

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https://www.wannatalkaboutit.com/