Andrea Dunlop

more than almost anyone, right?

Like the person who's supposed to teach you about who is safe in the world is telling you the exact opposite and is telling you only people who side with their abuser are safe people.

And anybody who's trying to protect them from their abuser is an evil person who's trying to kidnap them or what have you.

And so there is this very intense splitting between

of anybody who is on to that perpetrator.

They will take them out of that doctor's office.

They will remove them.

They will separate them from that family member.

They will absolutely just immediately excommunicate anyone who is suspicious of them.

And in my family, which I think this is pretty typical, this all happened over 14 years ago.

This came to a head in my family, which was after my sister was investigated for her older child.

My parents and I, once we recognized what was happening with the help of our family doctor who helped us give a name to it, we were very aligned.

Not that we wanted to take her kids away or even wanted her to be punished.

I don't think any of us was in that mindset at the time, but just that her child was in danger.

And so we were quite aligned on that once we had, again, the information.

And because of that, Megan cut us all out of

So that was her decision to cut us out.

And it was very much this either you get on board with my warped version of reality where this is the hospital's fault.

And she wanted my parents to help fund a lawsuit against the hospital.

And they said, no, thank you.