Liliana

Like they would act like I was a baby babbling to them.

And I would start crying.

about I'm talking and you apparently can't hear me because I'm a baby.

And so I would start crying and they would be like, oh, the baby's crying.

And they would scoop me up this big exaggerated rock the baby, whatever.

Yeah, so I was meant to go through that for a week.

And it had been a few days of this.

And I was just fed up, like truly.

I remember my stepdad's sister, so my aunt, was at the house.

And I went and asked her because I thought maybe she would be nicer than my parents.

I went and I asked her because she knew why I was being treated that way.

That's the thing.

Like, there were so many adults who knew that my parents were treating me this way and did nothing.

But she knew this was going on.

So I went and I asked her, can we please go back to SeaWorld so I can ride the journey to Atlantis so that I don't have to be in a pull-up anymore, is what I asked her.

I asked, can you guys please put me back into this situation that I'm perceiving as dangerous so that I can have the respect of existing as the age that I am?

And again, I went to her thinking she would be nicer than my parents, but she wasn't.

She just immediately laughed and called my parents into the room.

Guess who wants to ride the journey to Atlantis?

And then big belly laughs.