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Recurring trauma || Conversion therapy

Memories are always bleeding through. Parents who think taking away something fundamental from their child is good for them. Religious righteousness. A daughter locked away after an association with someone. Clerics aggressively cleansing her soul. Techniques like electroshocks that are used to aggressively reprogram homosexuality. Brainwashed to feel pain if you resist repressing your true feelings. These scenes suggest Emma may have gone through conversion therapy.

The entire episode of “Who’s Alice?” of Once Upon a Time in Wonderland also seems to have many similar references, but it’s most obvious in this scene. On the surface it’s about Cyrus, Alice’s lover from Wonderland. Alice’s father doesn’t believe in Wonderland and wants his daughter to heal. There is also pressure from his new wife Sarah. They’re afraid Alice will be a bad influence on their young daughter Millie.

Alice: You took you years to get over Mother. You were sad my entire childhood. Why do you think I get over Cyrus in just a few days? Edwin: Because, unlike him, your mother was bloody real. Alice: Cyrus was real. Edwin: No, he’s not, and you must find a way to give up this imaginary love story, Alice, and move on with your life. Alice: What if it’s not possible? What if a person can’t forget their love no matter how much easier it would be? Edwin: You must. Alice: I can’t. Edwin: Then you can no longer live under our roof with our family. Alice: Is that you talking, or her? Edwin: There’s one other good option. A doctor in London, Lydgate, he runs a psychiatric hospital. Alice: A madhouse?! Edwin: It’s not like it is in the books. This place is very nice, very modern. Alice: But I’m not mad! Why can’t you just believe? Edwin: What part do you want me to believe? The genie or the talking rabbit? Alice: (Tearfully) Me. You should believe in me. Edwin: I’m sorry. We can’t go on like this. I have to think of Millie. Alice: You’d just send me to a madhouse? Edwin: Not send you; offer you a choice—let Sarah find you a husband or you can live in a hospital, but you can’t sit here pining for a make-believe life, Alice. The choice, Alice, is entirely yours.

This seems pretty fantastical, but if you take this as a conversation as a father not validating, not considering his daughter’s love as real because it’s for a woman, but rather an illness to get over, then it becomes… very real world all of a sudden. The choice she is offered at the end is the most overt of them all “You can find a husband or go into therapy if you can’t do it by yourself.”

The first segment of this video nicely illustrates how the same issues keep showing up. The beginning specifically focuses on a parent not accepting the child’s love as real. During the segment with Lily and Emma, the parents accuse Emma of endangering their children by bringing a criminal into the house. Emma and Lily’s interactions suggest there is more going on than just friendship. If you put the stories of Alice’s family and Emma’s family together, another story emerges. Alice’s parents are specifically worried her delusions about lost love will have a negative influence on her half sister Millie.