I Left Home With 200 Dollars After My Family Called Me Unstable Then My Sister Found My Name Online

I was told I was unstable. I was told I needed help.

I glanced down at my notes, not because I needed them, but to give the room a moment to sit with what I’d just said.

The truth is that the help I actually needed was distance, I continued. Distance from a story being told about me that simply wasn’t true. And the years since then have been the work continue reading …