Walk in My Shoes Teresa Molina It’s pretty hard to walk in my shoes. Everyone just sees me and judges. Many who went through the same thing ended up taking their own life. Many don’t realize I could have been one of them. But I wasn’t. Many questioned why I was quiet in middle school. Everything just goes back to all the trauma I had as a kid. Childhood trauma ruined me so much in many ways. I was always quiet because I was scared of speaking up. But now I’m not the same person as I was before. There’s never a day where I think it won’t get better. I started to speak up about things that were hurting me. It was the best thing ever. I talk more in class. I just have to leave everything behind. I had so much trust in people—until I realized not everyone is going to treat you the same way you treat them. It’s hard when you’re little; you try to predict the world just for the world to be the opposite. You can never predict what the world will be like in the future.
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