You're So Well Spoken

Sharing my experience as a care leaver + personal blog

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What my care experience was primarily made up of...

The put downs, the comparisons, the slander, the keeping secrets, feeling alone, constantly criticised, the lack of guidance, celebration;  remembrance of important days (such as birthdays) and a safe space to grieve the loss of my mum. 10 years later, I still struggle to overcome the feelings from this experience and I’ve had to learn to begin to put in place boundaries to stop the manifestation of these experiences in my adult life. 

[youresowellspoken]

Reclaiming a term that kept me captive.

I can never forget the first time I wanted to be more open about my experience with people that I thought would understand, especially since they were training to work with vulnerable people. But when I shared that I was Care Leaver with my ‘friends’ on my social work course, one of the first comments I remember receiving was “Oh wow, you’re so well spoken”...