"Yep," Kate answers with a shrug. "I mean, it wasn't anything supernatural, just a mental illness, but still pretty goddamn weird when your mom turns into a teenager sometimes, right?" For a long time, she hasn't said much about it, she's preferred to keep it to herself if only because she didn't want to be defined by what had been wrong with Tara. She wants to make her own problems instead of always adopting her mother's, but she's come to a realization that not talking about it isn't the thing that changes how she deals with it.
The only thing that can change that is her own actions. She can talk about it, she can be honest about it and still be apart from it.
"And, shit, I don't blame you," she says. "I mean, tons of people can be total assholes. I got so much shit when I was a kid because of my mom that I didn't want to tell people for a long time either just because I'd heard it all before, you know? I'd been called names, I'd been the kid with the crazy mom. It's not something I go around talking about a lot and it's not even something that could put me in any danger, so yeah, I get it."
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Date: 2014-01-13 12:31 am (UTC)The only thing that can change that is her own actions. She can talk about it, she can be honest about it and still be apart from it.
"And, shit, I don't blame you," she says. "I mean, tons of people can be total assholes. I got so much shit when I was a kid because of my mom that I didn't want to tell people for a long time either just because I'd heard it all before, you know? I'd been called names, I'd been the kid with the crazy mom. It's not something I go around talking about a lot and it's not even something that could put me in any danger, so yeah, I get it."