Deborah Sowerby: Covering Up

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In fact that theme of adults, particularly in authority, being of no use to me whatsoever continued, because I when I went to art school, again nobody talked to me, about what I could expect, nobody made any reference to the fact that I had this weird upbringing, that I had a condition, so, I'd learnt by then, I decided that I didn't have it, that it was somehow something that happened in the past.

It is very weird what happened I went into a kind of - there's two things: I went into the kind of denial, kept secret my entire childhood and education, everything that happened before, I wouldn't talk about it, I tried to keep it secret and not let anybody find out, and I also tried not to let anybody find out that I had this body that wasn't quite right. So a lot of my energy went into covering things up and pretending to be normal, that was what I wanted to be.

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