Status Updates From Simon Sort of Says

“When my family fights about who the traumatized one is, I always say it’s me, and Mom’s on my side, but Dad always says yes it is me, but also it is all of us. When I hear my parents’ shoes come through the sliding door into treatment, I know it’s them. I know it even before I hear Dad’s voice asking, ‘Which way which way.’ … he’s kind of right. It is all of us.”

“I think there’s never going to be a now. I think there’s always going to be a before, and an after.”

Reading about Hercules the puppy. Hard to understand people wanting puppies in their house, destroying things and peeing everywhere. I am definitely a cat person.

“Something big. Something big has happened. It’s happened inside me, like…like something getting born, stretching out, like I just hatched and have wings. I feel light and heavy and super weird and like I could be a tornado and like I could run across America forever.”

This is about a boy who survived a school shooting in elementary school and it is every bit emotional that you’d think it be 😭 I also appreciate the autism representation.