Learning to be Human

Sometimes living in the shadows is the safest place to be… or so you would think, but you’d be wrong, because living in the shadows is what makes you a victim.

As the youngest child living within a dysfunctional family, I thought that anger, rivalry and hatred were the norm, that every family possessed dirty little secrets they hid from the world… like alcohol and drug addiction, mental and physical abuse, depression, schizophrenia and suicide. Surviving those dirty little secrets while running from the school bully was hard, but it was nothing in comparison to coming up on the radar of the neighbourhood pedophile.