178: What if you couldn't tell him what really happened?
This Is Actually Happening
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4.6 • 9.9K Ratings
🗓️ 16 February 2021
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
“Will I ever be able to be one of them ever again, or am I just like an alien now?”
Producer: Whit Missildine
Episode Summary: A woman finally escapes the trauma of her mother’s mental illness only to find a new, more horrifying monster in the very place she finds respite
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Content/Trigger Warnings: mental illness, domestic abuse, violence, child neglect, rape, sexual assault, suicide, explicit language
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | This is actually happening, features real experiences that often include traumatic events. |
| 0:04.2 | Please consult the show notes for specific content warnings on each episode, |
| 0:07.6 | and for more information about support services. |
| 0:17.2 | It was like I had crash-landed back to Earth, and now I'm supposed to be a person again. |
| 0:24.6 | Will I ever be able to be one of them ever again? |
| 0:28.2 | Or am I just like an alien now? |
| 0:31.9 | Nothing was ever really the same. |
| 0:44.1 | From laundry, I'm Whit Missildine. |
| 0:47.4 | You are listening to this is actually happening. |
| 0:59.0 | Episode 178. |
| 1:02.4 | What if you couldn't tell him what really happened? |
| 1:09.8 | Hey prime members, you can listen to this is actually happening. |
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| 1:29.4 | I was born in Texas, and my parents were together until I was four or five years old, at which |
| 1:36.8 | point my mother moved my little brother and I from Texas to Maryland, and cut off all |
| 1:44.3 | contact with my father. |
| 1:48.8 | We tore off in the night when she left my father. |
| 1:52.6 | We packed up just barely anything and took off. |
| 2:01.2 | She said that he had many other families, not only just other wives but other children, |
| 2:11.3 | and other than that, she left it very vague. |
| 2:15.5 | I always had a lot of questions. |
| 2:18.2 | My questions were met with a lot of anger. |
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