#he still hasn't told anyone ANYTHING like omg efnisien

[not-poignant]

Man I'm so angry about everything that Lija did and said but like, casually just being like "oh yea I kind of wondered if you were being abused but it was whatever" to Eff who was SO traumatized and conditioned that it's taken years to even somewhat accept that what he experienced was abuse. I'm just. I'm FUMING.

I genuinely can't wait, honestly, for Dr Gary to find out what happened, because he would also be fuming over the whole experience. And I think quite a few people are going to feel solidarity with his response! (Even though, as always, he's going to remain pretty calm and level around Efnisien, I think his outrage will be apparent).

Also I get that Lija might be feeling some guilt now, at what she witnessed while Efnisien was a young child, but that guilt in no way helps or assists Efnisien, and it glaringly didn't assist him back then either? It just makes him aware that there was potentially a group of influential people who had suspicions about his home life and none of them did a single thing?

Like...

That's such a horrible thing to both disclose to someone who is already vulnerable, and is also sadly just...one of those things that can be so damning. That was not a stand up moment for Lija. :/