Tessa Schlesinger
1 min readOct 21, 2022

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And I do not have one mite of interest in reading about personal experience. It does not reflect the overall situation of people throughout the world. It is not hard science. It's a personal opinion, and it's very misleading.

For instance, I have Asperger's Syndrome. I also faced abuse to the extent that i was told that people with my level of abuse and disability generally meant that people were dead by the age of 25. They never survive.

I was speaking to my 37 year old daughter yesterday about the fact that she never new about what I had lived through until she was 25, and I finally gave her the newspaper cuttings, the court papers, the documentation. She spent the night reading through it, and in the morning she said @I don't know how you survived.'

You know what? People who have lived through ehll and made it through don't talk about it much. My holocaust survivor father didn't talk about it. Nelson Mandela never spoke about what he lived through.

It's the people who have barely scratched the surface who write about these things.

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