Gypsy Rose Blanchard

arrested that you know i'm sitting there having an attorney visit with my public defender and i'm just you know telling him all of this stuff still in my frame of reference of not having the language to explain what i was going through but he was able to get a lot of what was going on from medical records i mean the first thing that flagged it is i could walk

It's not like he had to dig and try to find this out.

It was pretty easy by just looking at the fact that I could walk and then kind of like where she could walk.

So how is this happening?

Because she's supposedly paralyzed.

Absolutely.

You know, that's a question that, you know, and that's a weight that I put on myself is that, you know, when I was a child, it's kind of like, okay, I'm helpless.

You know, there's very little that I can do.

And then once I became an adult, the power dynamic sort of shifts and the blame sort of shifts, I guess, even on my own shoulders.

It's kind of like a coulda, shoulda, woulda thing.

And so, yes, there were many times that I probably could have ran away.

I did attempt twice, failed attempts.

There were times that I could have called the police, but was too afraid to.

But at the end of the day, I do feel like even though I was an adult myself,

I was working with a maturity level that was not up to date with my chronological age.

So, yes, I was 24 when I got arrested.

But mentally and emotionally, my development was stunted.

So I could have been, you know, a teenager in that mind frame already.

because of zero life experience.

Most people mature and grow with what?