6 years old, is when you should be, learning to ride your bike, jumping rope at recess and your biggest problem is who you should invite to your birthday party. 6 years old, is how old I was the first time I was molested. He called himself ‘The Man’. He never gave me bruises, but … Read more
This is not who I am. The girl I used to know does not exist anymore. Healthy. Happy. Full of life. She is gone. I look in the mirror and do not recognize the person staring back at me. Who is she? And where is Samantha Marie Campbell? My whole life I have been an … Read more
Growing up I was always known as a daddy’s girl by my family members. I was in constant need for his love and attention. Once I started high school, that need faded and eventually turned into bitterness, then anger. I started cutting myself in a pathetic attempt to get my father to notice me and … Read more
You look like you could kill a person … that’s what she said, not you look pensive, maybe I was pondering the infinite combinations of peanut butter and anything, quantum physics, no I was mean , a possible killer. I wanted to talk to her, I liked her but she left, her friend said that … Read more
Being diagnosed with Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome (EDS) was one of the best things and worst things that could have ever happened to me. Growing up, I was called everything from a hypochondriac to an attention-seeker. I was a wimpy kid who complained all the time and cried about everything. I lived in an abusive household, so … Read more