Tomorrow I take my final exam for my first semester of nursing school.
I am one day away from finishing the first leg of something I almost never started. I am also one day away from maintaining a 4.0 GPA. Instructors, friends, classmates, and my therapist all say they knew I could do it.
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“I used to be a good homeschooler. I used to be a good Christian. I used to be a model daughter. Then something happened.”
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“She’s probably going to scream at me. I guess she thinks it’s the loving thing to do.”
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You can follow Michelle Hill at her blog notesfromahomeschooler.blogspot.com At best my mother is toxic, at her worst, she’s been emotionally abusive. I’ve now come to realize that during my childhood, along with self-harm and restrictive eating, I also suffered from depression. My parents are now more controlling than ever since I’ve moved away to college. Not in the physical
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“I often wonder how homeschooling has shaped me, and who I would be if I didn’t have such an unusual upbringing.”
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“The moment I remember most vividly is when I was spanked for being afraid of the dark.”
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“I see things that nobody else sees.”
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“The only way for me to be forgiven and returned to my valued place in the family was to submit to physical pain.”
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“Being spanked as a child is a large part of why I started self-harming as a teenager.”
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“If I could wave a magic wand and erase the past, I would. Trust me. In a heartbeat. I think about it over and over. What would I have been like if I’d had a decent education? If I hadn’t been abused and controlled by the people who had total power over me, where would I be?”
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Homeschoolers Anonymous 