Subsequently, Sydney’s friend, Layla’s brother Mac was the first one, in Sydney’s point of view, to see her and not disregard her from his life. Sydney eventually realizes that sometimes, being invisible isn’t, surprisingly, that unfortunate. “How strange it must be to go from looking one way to such a vastly different other. For the attention to change and still not feel better. Maybe the invisible place wasn’t all bad, all the time.”(248) Surprised, that for once, it looks as if being invisible to others that you care about, isn’t such a horrible place to be, Sydney finally feels embraced. Irrevocably, Sydney finally feels seen and visible among her mother. She’s with the one caring friend that sees her and her mother realizes the truth of how Sydney’s been all these years. “Peyton had always been there, coloring the view. Big, vibrant colors first, then the grays and darkness of the last couple of years. But in that moment, surrounded by people she didn’t know in a strange room and place, I was the opposite of invisible, the sole thing she
Subsequently, Sydney’s friend, Layla’s brother Mac was the first one, in Sydney’s point of view, to see her and not disregard her from his life. Sydney eventually realizes that sometimes, being invisible isn’t, surprisingly, that unfortunate. “How strange it must be to go from looking one way to such a vastly different other. For the attention to change and still not feel better. Maybe the invisible place wasn’t all bad, all the time.”(248) Surprised, that for once, it looks as if being invisible to others that you care about, isn’t such a horrible place to be, Sydney finally feels embraced. Irrevocably, Sydney finally feels seen and visible among her mother. She’s with the one caring friend that sees her and her mother realizes the truth of how Sydney’s been all these years. “Peyton had always been there, coloring the view. Big, vibrant colors first, then the grays and darkness of the last couple of years. But in that moment, surrounded by people she didn’t know in a strange room and place, I was the opposite of invisible, the sole thing she