Carter Lee

Um, and this is when, you know, my mom's mental health really took a toll.

Um, she, you know, she wasn't, you know, she's not the type of person to be very delusional, but, but it's just erratic, you know, it's erratic behavior.

It's this, it's that, you know, it's a million miles an hour.

You know, she's a manic depressive, right.

um so she ends up getting pregnant with my younger sister we're living at this farmhouse um and you know one morning me and my dad my older brother wake up and my mom my little sister my little brother aren't home you know my mom ended up you know the marriage was really on thin ice they ended up getting into an argument my mom took them to texas to move with her sister so that didn't last very long you know my dad got the kids back whatever

But my mom ended up moving into a mental facility.

She ended up, you know, needing some type of treatment.

And I think she realized that for herself at a certain point.

Right.

Yeah.

How old were you?

Dude, I'm like not even seven at this point, maybe eight, you know.

So, you know, it got a little too much for my dad because my dad has to work a full time job at the time he was a teacher and take care of four kids.

So some of his family ended up intervening like, hey, you know,

One kid can live here, one kid can live here.

So I ended up moving in with an aunt and uncle.

My older brother ended up moving in with a different aunt and uncle.

My younger sister moved in with her grandmother.

And my dad ended up moving back into his parents' house with my younger brother, right?

um and this was like kind of a lonely time for me because you know here i am eight years old seven maybe and i'm living with somebody i'm comfortable with and i know and trust them but you know they're not my immediate family right you know so it you know although i was being taken care of and they're great people it it wasn't where i wanted to be right and it's just a confusing time because i'm like you know what's going on with mom why is why is she leaving you know you know i felt bad for my dad i felt bad for my younger siblings