@ wowfairy13 Then I'll keep going with Shae and Lauren c: I personally have gender identity issues too. I mean, I just don't feel like I was meant to be a girl and I hate it. I feel like that there's just something missing. I personally wish that I was born as a boy and Shae is actually my own picked out male name for myself. And I'd be a bi or pan male. Thank you xoxo most of it's easy to write about because I've experienced it first hand
Wow, this is totally unexpected but in a good way if that makes sense. I personally would like to see how Shae and Lauren's relationship develops and how their friends Cyan and Arden view it as their own complicated relationship is explored. On an ironic note, my name is Lauren and I am 19 and sometimes feel like more of a guy than girl. I have been doing a lot of soul searching and have recently started to think I am not a straight female like I thought I was. I appreciate the human figure as an art student, particularly the female body. But when I look at a guy, I have celeb crushes, a "type", and have dated a couple guys before (never a girl). Having read this chapter I was reminded that it isn't as simple as straight, lesbian, or bi. The most accurate description of my self concept is a bisexual male. Anyway I know this is rambling but the point is that you have really opened the door to a lot of tough issues from eating disorders to gender identity and I admire your ability to write about them in such a great storyline. Keep it up! :)
@ wowfairy13 Omg I didn't think that I was actually good like that c: I mean, most of what Arden's feeling physically and emotionally (apart from the Cyan thing) is what I feel like a lot like when you don't eat enough, you feel a certain way and when you do it for long enough, it just continues and like I haven't really emphasized it that much, but most of what Arden feels is me. But there's a lot that I hope that I get right about things that I haven't experienced
Wow, not to make any rude assumptions, but I thought you had gone through it yourself... I can't believe you are able to get it right having not experienced it, but that is just a testament to your incredible skills as a writer :) @ rebuild-and-rebound
@ wowfairy13 I'm so glad that I did it justice. My friend went to a psych ward, and I don't know much about it because I don't really wanna ask, but I know that it's not how people usually describe it in stories. I'm really glad that you feel that I did it right <33
Wow its really ionic that right before I read this chapter I found my old journals from my most recent stay at a psych ward o.O but this was a super-duper good chapter, not overly dramatic which I appreciate.Its one of my pet peeves when people make a long drawn out, totally unrealistic chapter(s) about characters being in rehab/therapy. Most of the whole point of those experiences is that it is highly personal. No one will ever know anything other than they're own experience at a residential treatment center because it is such an interpersonal thing. Its like describing how monks go and spend years in solitude in the mountain top monasteries. You can only say the actual who, what, when, where and to some extent the why. The how is something that's too complex to explain.it wouldn't make sense to anyone but yourself. I know this is rambling but this is the first time a scene like this has been written the way it should in all the stories I've read, so thank you for doing it justice :)