Early teenage, had been hitting the local Y to lift weights. I was super done taking shit from anyone

Especially mum, slapping me in the face all the time

She blind sides me one night because of my grades, so I start Neo blocking her onslaught - she starts screaming

I’m literally just protecting my head as I’m trying to back out of the room

Her torrent started in the kitchen where she used to sit me in the high chair and slap my face so hard I would fall out and hit the floor. If I didn’t reseat myself to be slapped out of the chair again then she would just slap me as hard as she could. I was in afternoon kindergarten, the year that started

Anyways, she backs me out of the kitchen, down hallway, out the door and into the garage where my dad caught up to us

He starts yelling at me to drop my arms because my mother is damaging her hands against my guard