The scapegoat child is the only honest one - and they will make them suffer for it

#ClusterB #ToxicFamilies #scapegoat #scapegoatSurvivor #InvisibleChild #trauma #NPD #ChildhoodTrauma #ClusterBFamily

"Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible." ~ Carl Gustav Jung #ClusterBfamily #NarcAbuse #loneliness #SiblingAbuse #TruthTeller #neglect #InvisibleChild #ScapegoatSurvivor

My favourite book of 2023 so far - genuinely extraordinary

“A work of luminous and riveting prose, Elliott’s Invisible Child reads like a page-turning novel. It is an astonishing story about the power of resilience, the importance of family and the cost of inequality—told through the crucible of one remarkable girl”

#WhatImReading #BookRecommendations #InvisibleChild #AndreaElliott

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/397e33f8-6d75-11ec-bc61-d89d34e56365?shareToken=076419da6901372c7846f0d24100b167

Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival and Hope in New York City by Andrea Elliott review — a classic to rank with Orwell

“I have a lot on my plate,” the central character in Invisible Child says. That central character is Dasani, and she’s talking about her family and the chores s

The Sunday Times
Finished reading #INvisibleChild by @AndreaFElliot@Beta.mstdn.cf a dramatic social justice page turner. Every now and then you find a book that cannot be put down, and fortunately goes on to reveal more events in the life of Desani Coates, a teen in Brooklyn, heroic struggle against the social welfare bureaucracy and community attempting to break up her family with millions of misspent dollars.