The Quiet Emergency: When Adults Look Away and Kids Learn to Disappear

might never tell you the worst of it.

Not because it’s not happening.

But because they’ve learned that adults don’t want the truth.

Adults want the version that’s easy to fix.

A kid will tell you “I don’t like school.”

They won’t tell you, “I’m practicing ways to disappear.”

They’ll say “My stomach hurts.”

They won’t say, “I’d rather be sick than be seen.continue reading …