Liliana

internalize that belief, if I'm ugly, then nobody loves me.

And also, too, being unsupervised, there was this incident where I think we were home alone.

A four-year-old, a two-year-old, and a newborn left home alone.

And it was the middle of the night.

I remember it was dark as heck.

And my sister and I were in the kitchen getting into stuff, you know, as toddlers do when you leave them unsupervised.

And we were getting into stuff, you know, like dumping flour on the floor, making a mess.

And my parents came home from wherever they were and saw the big mess.

And this was a big turning point.

They had decided they had never seen kids do this.

Like this was just unacceptable.

And this was like,

Beyond them, they've never even heard of kids doing this or something.

And so my stepfather, he talked to my mom and said, I think we should implement physical punishments.

I think if we started beating your kids, they would not do this stuff.

And my mom was like, hold on, you might be cooking.

Like, bro, whatever.

So that was definitely a turning point was us doing normal toddler things.

It's crazy to me.

I also started to develop a reputation at home for being a liar simply because I was misunderstood.