Category: Deconstruction

• When Simple Answers Won’t Do: Why I hate Small Talk

  

  Sometimes I forget how messed up I am or how dark my life has been. I’m not sure how it happens because the shadows are always on the edges of me. I think I’m so comfortable with them, I just forget that they’re there. In this post, I talk about the pain of small talk…

  acrodriguezwrites

  October 7, 2022

  Deconstruction, Healing Journey, Stories can Heal, Surviving Abuse, Survivor’s Story, Telling our Stories, Trauma

  abuse, author, awkward, healing, remembering, sexual abuse, small talk, survivor, Trauma

• Tiny Little Boxes: The Only Thing that Matters

  

  Protect your son from the world… …put him in a box so tiny that he can’t breathe, or speak, or function in the real world. Teach him that god only loves them if he is ‘normal’. Place scenes of bodies burning eternal in his head so that they can play on repeat… …all just so…

  acrodriguezwrites

  September 9, 2022

  Creative Writing, Deconstruction, On Being a Bard, poetry, Short Writes

  author, Conversion Therapy, Deconstruction, sexual abuse, survivor, Trauma