Liliana

If I stifled a cough, he would hit me.

I had to learn how to hold back my coughs, how to ignore my own body to avoid getting hit.

It's just ridiculous.

So that was something that happened.

And also too, when he gave me a lecture or if he was talking in general, even if we were just at the dining table and he was speaking, if somebody, if me or my siblings, I can't even say somebody because the rules didn't apply for my mom.

But if one of us yawned while he was talking, you would get hit because

He was like, oh, I'm just so boring to you.

I'm just so boring to you that you're yawning.

He always felt like we were doing it on purpose to mock him or something.

It's like, no, I'm five.

I'm tired.

Like, hello?

It was just really odd.

And again, where is my mom?

She's just standing by and letting it happen.

Another thing about my stepdad is he's pretty much every horrible thing you could think of.

Racist, homophobic, transphobic, every phobia you can think of.

And he's also just generally antisocial, hates other people, wants to keep to himself.

but the worst thing about him like in my opinion he loved to abuse animals especially cats like cats were like and and growing up i didn't realize that like animals had feelings too just because of the way i saw him treat animals like he went hunting and hunting is one thing but he was horrible like if if a neighborhood cat wandered onto our patio

He would... There was a time he picked a cat up by the tail and swung it and threw it back over the fence.