When I was invited to speak at this conference on "Attachment and Trauma" about my own experiences of surviving in the care system, my initial thought was that I do not have anything sufficiently traumatic to talk about. What on earth was I going to say that would be sufficiently interesting or significant to address a conference?When I thought about it further I realized that my initial response was reminiscent of years ago-when I used to tell people that I spent thirteen of the first sixteen years of my life in institutional care, the usual response was, that must have been awful for you, to which I would counter, well it wasn't as bad for me as it was for some of the kids that I grew up with.
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