Harmony by Carolyn Parkhurst

Author:Carolyn Parkhurst
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 2016-07-14T11:21:44+00:00

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If you’re hoping that this will end as suddenly as it began, you’re out of luck. It goes on for weeks and weeks. You speak to Tilly’s teacher and to the therapist she sees at school; no one can really explain it. Just ride it out seems to be the best advice anyone can give you.

At school, she’s not able to behave any better than she is at home, and even in a school designed specifically for kids with special needs, there are limits to what they can handle. When Tilly is too disruptive for the teacher to allow her to stay in the classroom, she gets sent out to “take a break,” sometimes in a counselor’s office and sometimes just in whatever empty room they can find. Eventually, the school asks you to keep her home for a little while. Among other things, the current situation is hurting her social interactions with her classmates; they’re grossed out by the licking.

Throughout January and February, you and Tilly spend long, difficult days at home. Josh takes time off from work, when he can, to give you a break. When you leave the house, you wonder how you’re able to walk around in public without people seeing that you’re a complete mess.

It doesn’t get better, and it doesn’t, and it doesn’t.

Sometimes you imagine getting sick—nothing serious, but perhaps something that would require a few days’ hospitalization. Sometimes you wish you were invisible. You wish you’d never made yourself important to anyone at all.

Here are some of the things you’re not posting on Facebook during February of 2011:

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