Why didn't you just listen?

My younger self

To My twelve-year-old self

You Were Not Difficult

You were not difficult. You were overwhelmed, observant, and trying to survive rooms where adults expected you to understand things they refused to explain. They called you...

My younger self

To Little me

You were not too much

You were not too loud, too sensitive, too needy, or too difficult. You were a child asking to be loved properly.

My younger self

To Fourteen-year-old me

You did not ruin everything

You made mistakes because you were hurting and nobody asked why. You did not ruin everything. There was still so much life waiting for you.