My mother was not able to handle parenting as she still has the mental age of a teenager. My mom could be fun, spontaneous, and scary, all on the same day. I have great memories of her breaking me out of school to go on a grand adventure. However, the most predominant memory of my mother has nothing to do with adventure but revolves around her bad days when she would tell me I was worthless. Her most common shriek when she was not able to get her fix, was that I was not worth the sweat off of her ass. Those often repeated words hurt and scarred my very spirit, the pain was 100 times worse than when she broke my arm. I am forty-four and can still close my eyes and hear her voice. Her words affected my feelings and thoughts (Wood, 2014) and as a child I was not able to voice my thoughts and feelings (page 124, Wood,
My mother was not able to handle parenting as she still has the mental age of a teenager. My mom could be fun, spontaneous, and scary, all on the same day. I have great memories of her breaking me out of school to go on a grand adventure. However, the most predominant memory of my mother has nothing to do with adventure but revolves around her bad days when she would tell me I was worthless. Her most common shriek when she was not able to get her fix, was that I was not worth the sweat off of her ass. Those often repeated words hurt and scarred my very spirit, the pain was 100 times worse than when she broke my arm. I am forty-four and can still close my eyes and hear her voice. Her words affected my feelings and thoughts (Wood, 2014) and as a child I was not able to voice my thoughts and feelings (page 124, Wood,