Abandoned
Orphaned
Manipulated
Gay
It was no wonder that I became rebellious and resentful. Standing up to all these pressures in my life and faced with my grandmother's mortality, I reverted to the frightened child I thought I had left behind. I was overcome with anxiety and panic attacks; that paralysed me to the point of contemplating suicide.
The years of abandonment and feelings of futility following my childhood institutionalisation...