Tag: culture

• The summer I turned Unpretty.

  You know back in the day they said “you are what you eat” and that was enough to scare me. It meant there are no secrets and everyone sees what you do and eating more or for pleasure was shameful. I found -who I thought-was the one at my thinnest and to his delight, I…

  Cristin O’Brien

  October 5, 2025

  Art, History, Personal, School, Trauma

  abusive relationships, adhd, anorexia, Art, broken home, compassion, culture, drugs, eating, friends, growth, help, hope, learning, mom, Personal, political, pretty, School, stories, substance abuse, thin, Trauma, truth

• Artistic honesty.

  My mums always been a repressed new ager in a Lilith fair kind of way… but also in a weight watchers kind of way, more on that in later posts. When she saw me start to cry today for instance she said “ maybe we should see a naturopath” she was referring to the fact…

  Cristin O’Brien

  October 5, 2025

  Art, Coming of Age, History, Personal, School, Sociology, Trauma

  90skid, adhd, Art, compassion, culture, eating, friends, growth, help, hope, learning, Personal, political, School, stories, Trauma, truth