Blunt force trauma-ing Rodolphus's junk since 1980 (curseunbroken) wrote in lockdown,
"And when you try to talk about it, they get angry and upset and that just ends up making things worse, because then you feel like you shouldn't talk about it because it upsets them," Gideon said. "Nobody says it's all right to be fucked-up about it. They talk about moving on, and it's just not that easy, it's not something we can just decide to do."
It felt strange, being so open about it, but she understood. That much was already obvious.
Quietly, he said, "I end up in hospital sometimes. Not on purpose, not really, but I... I get hurt, I -- hurt myself, badly sometimes, because at least if I'm obviously hurt, they'll accept that as a reason to be hurting."