GENEVIEVE
When I was a child, I had trouble learning words. I don't know why. I have a high IQ and can figure out what to do, but memorizing words was a bit difficult. The professionals my father took me to thought I had some kind of dyslexia, but it's not like I couldn't read or recognize words. It's not that they all sounded the same.
They just looked alive.
You know that feeling when you're reading something and it almost jumps off the page? For me, it was literal, and that's exactly how it felt. Like the words were coming after me. It turns out I didn't have trouble with all the words. Just the negative ones. The words that make my skin itch and my vision blur. The words I felt instead of just reading.
Anxiety made my skin crawl and my nose tingle .
Cruel heated my che
