My name is Jessy and I am a 34 year old female.

I'm half American half Australian & my parents moved us (me & my sister) all around the world as kids, all too obviously not giving the slightest crap about how we felt about it (i.e. we were involved in the moves ONLY on a physical level) & simultaneously telling us how 'lucky' we were (e.g. not to be beaten, to have food, to be "world travelers", etc). Parents who couldn't cope with/admit their own difficult feelings/marriage/etc, let alone their kids', & the sort of people who were way too irresponsible & emotionally incompetent to be decent parents. (The sort who think/feel/believe kids should have no rights, no say, etc. in their own lives) So it was an extremely invalidating & isolating way to grow up - very few people seem to be able to understand/appreciate this. I also was in a motor boat accident at age 16, suffering fractured skull (nearly brain injury, but not) & arm laceration. I have trouble being assertive about my feelings, judging them to be 'unreasonable' & thus reinforcing my own 'disempowerments' in a very frustrating way.

My email is: unrelated_thing@yahoo.com