The Black Sheep Was Right All Along

If you were the one in your family who asked the uncomfortable questions - the one who could not pretend, could not perform the required cheerfulness, could not swallow the...

If you were the one in your family who asked the uncomfortable questions - the one who could not pretend, could not perform the required cheerfulness, could not swallow the contradictions and smile - then you already know what it costs to see clearly in a house that depends on blindness.

They called you difficult. Dramatic. Too sensitive. Too much.

They said you were the problem - that if you could just be more like your sibling, more compliant, more grateful, more quiet, the family would function smoothly.

What they actually meant was: if you would stop reflecting back to us the dysfunction we refuse to acknowledge, we could continue pretending that everything is fine.