Yeah.

In the last few years she began trying on different personalities, it seemed.

She had ADD for about 2 months.

"I can't sit still. I have ADD. I have to talk all the time. I have ADD. I'm sorry it's so hard to watch a movie with me. I have ADD. I have all this energy. I have ADD."

She changed ethnicities for a while. Her speech patterns, her movements, her "attitude", the pop culture she became interested in, all changed to align with a different ethnicity for a while; to that of one of her new BFFs, actually. She kinda became that woman.

COVID and the shutdowns were harder on her than on anybody, including the kids. She said so.

The war in Ukraine effected her so much that she could feeeeeel it all the time. We are close to someone who is from Ukraine, who was supporting family to flee during the war. Somehow my wife avoided her for the entire time, because only my wife could feeeeeeel what this was really like.

When a kid my daughter knows died very suddenly, I told my wife about it. She could feeeeeeel it..... She knew. She knew that girl was sick, sick for months and no one would believe her, because she was a girl. No man, no doctor would believe a girl that she was sick. And when she arrived at the hospital........ She knew.......... She knew that girl had to wait, while they treated a man instead of her. She knew...... She could feeeeeel that girls life slipping away while a man got treatment instead of her.

And, despite how much she could feeeeeeel it...... She never talked to our daughter about the death of this kid. I parented her through that.

These are all true things we experienced between 2020-2023.

RDM