Liliana

It was so funny, so funny, so funny.

And I'm just crying to myself.

Like at this point, I had already learned to...

like silently cry even even now like sometimes I want to scream and cry and I just can't get myself to do it because I learned only the only thing that's allowed to come out is the tears and that's it I'm not allowed to make a sound so I was just I was just so sad

Later on that same trip, we get to this roller coaster.

I would say it's a pretty iconic one at SeaWorld.

It's called Journey to Atlantis.

I'll never forget it.

It's the one that at the end, it comes down in a big splash of water.

So I'm standing up against the railing and I'm getting splashed by the water and I'm having a great time because California is hot and I'm getting splashed.

And my parents were like, do you want to ride that?

And I was like,

like you guys are tripping no like they were like yeah I think you want to ride that and I was like don't do this to me like please like don't like my tears instantly started because I knew they were gonna force me to ride that and I was just like don't I was like it's way too high I was like I remember like I was I was trying to give them every single point like trying to argue with them please don't make me write it because of this and they would argue and I would be like don't make me write it because of that

so it was like the infrastructure of the roller coaster that people would get on and they would go up and then kind of like disappear so I was like does it go upside down and my parents were like no it doesn't go upside down but I couldn't verify that with my eyes like that's that's the kind of child I've always been and I feel like I kind of had to be because of the parents that I had I always had to verify things with my eyes like because I just didn't believe the things they were telling me

So I was like, well, I don't believe you guys because you guys lied to me.

I didn't say that, obviously, but I was just like, I don't know.

I was like, the people are scared.

That's why they're screaming, you know, whatever, and stuff like that.

And it was all in vain, truly.

They dragged me over to see if I'm tall enough.