Her diagnosis has changed the way her mother sees her, or rather doesn’t. Maddy has been healthy, functional, and thriving for a while now, like she was in high school, better even, but her mother can’t acknowledge it. It’s as if everything about who Maddy was before November—dependable and predictably ordinary—has been erased from her mother’s memory, and through the lens of her selective amnesia, she can now only view a Maddy who is unstable, fragile, and likely to melt down in any kind of bad weather. Maddy could stay home forever, and her mother would worry. It doesn’t matter where she is
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