“You should have never been born.” Why do you tell a 10 year old kid that?
I went through beatings with extension cords.
If I look at that house, that’s what it brought me back to, just shame, resentment, and brought me to today, like the person I am today is because of that house.
It took a lot out of me to go to this house and take that picture. It took a lot out of me.
A piece of my life, a segment of my life.
When I was small, that’s all we did was stay in the church, from sun up to sundown…
[The church was] where I was supposed to have been protected, but I was not protected, I was abused. Just evil in my eyesight because the things I went through…
It still bothers me right now, so that’s where a little of my stigma comes from, the church, because there’s a lot of things that happened to me in church…
That [tree] represents to me life within myself. It was like I had to grow, so the tree showed me growth.
I branched out even though I had hard conflicts, but I still branched out.
I bloomed and I blossom still, but I still have faults within myself because I still have a dark side within me.
Snap Out Stigma 