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My heart goes out to you, your parents and all other residential school survivors. No child, no parent, no people should have had to endure such trauma.
I hope, one day families who still suffer from this generational trauma can break through the horror of their and their ancestor's experience and are able to stop their suffering and thrive instead.
The suffering and stigma lasts a lifetime ... it did with my parents and it will with me. But the suffering is lessened with every generation.
What many people don't understand is that this is a generational thing for me, my family and for you and your family.
My parents experienced it, they passed some of that suffering to me and I will pass a little bit of that suffering to the generation after me and they in turn a little less to the generation after.
The same with you ... you heard the story, you'll share it with those around you and you will all live with it and understand it ... then the generation after will learn again and understand it and accept it.
Then in a hundred years everyone will know it, remember it but be less affected by it and life can go on.
There is no easy fix to this ... it will take life times. But the more people there are like you, the sooner we may lessen that suffering.