Adoption Papers

Sophie Barrett

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 Garret 2020
Questions:
1. What even is anxiety?
2. Tunnel vision?
3. Envisioning people around you as temporary, conditional? One word,
a fee for abandonment?
4. The opposite of quiet?
5. Keeping quiet for some fear of rejection?
6. Feeling small?
7. Feeling like nothing you do is ever right?
8. Living in spirals?
9. Trapped twisting in second, third, twentieth guesses?
10. Tearing up from some imagined perception of anger? Of annoyance?
Of dismissal?
11. Clenched fists and shallow breaths?
12. Pressing lips closed, keeping eyes low, tilting head down for some
sense of safety?
13. Hiding?
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15. Getting stuck between the cracks?
16. Denial?
17. Cognitive dissonance?
18. Sinking?
19. Drowning?
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