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

her do the same thing she’d been doing at the old school: shrink.

Make herself smaller.

Take up less space in the world, as if space was something she had to earn.

I wanted to run after her.

I wanted to pick her up like she was five again and carry her inside and tell the whole building, This is a human being. Act like it.

But she’d made it clear the night continue reading …