What I Learned

Date: 12 Apr 2011 06:44 am (UTC)
"...to be quiet and hide in plain sight..." as one strategy I learned well, and deployed often, and very much. You haven't seen it, but it's in my toolchest, and still comes out often, in appropriate context.

I also learned a considerable variety of techniques, and responses.

A meta response was to learn a considerable variety of techniques, and responses.

And to experiment with them.

One was to talk fast and be funny, and distract the bully so that while they were laughing, I'd vanish in a puff of smoke.

That was for bullies.

The rest of my answer would run long.

Relying on my parents wasn't even a thought that crossed my mind. Consulting my parents wasn't even a thought.

I was an immensely independent child, of necessity, and will.

But then we'd get into autobiography, and all the rest is commentary.
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