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Originally Posted by archipelago
These children feel physically and morally helpless, their personalities are not sufficiently consolidated in order to be able to protest, even if only in thought, for the overpowering force and authority of the adult makes them dumb and can rob them of their senses.
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Yeah. It carries through to adulthood... I remember many situations like this, where I knew something was wrong, and I felt absolutely powerless to speak out or do anything... Learned helplessness my T says. And then the shame of being so helpless. And you can't tell anyone, because you know you should be able to help yourself, and the shame if anyone found out, and what would happen, and they would take my kids away because I'm not good enough to take care of them etc. etc...
Ugh.
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'...
At poor peace I sing
To you strangers (though song
Is a burning and crested act,
The fire of birds in
The world's turning wood,
For my sawn, splay sounds,)
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Dylan Thomas, Author's Prologue
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