Top comment on her tiktok
I’ve been hooked on stephanie’s bs since discovering her, and I think it’s because it feels like I’m watching her kids live my own childhood. I can’t put into words how demeaning it is to see her downplay/validate the trauma she causes them, as I actively struggle with the same trauma as an adult.
I suffered years of foster care as a result of the homelessness, was split from my siblings, missed so much school, and truly didn’t believe I would survive. every day in the motels felt agonizing, isolating and dehumanizing in my crucial developmental years. to hear stephanie describe the kids’ experiences as “lessons that NEEDED to be learned” infuriated me so deeply. because how DARE you twist life-altering neglect into a lesson. it felt like a punch in the face.
having the top comment on the video likely means that she had to have read it, and I hope to god that it made her regret everything for at least a second. I want her to see the words of an adult who survived the same neglect she’s forcing her kids to endure.
I’m thankfully safe now- successful, healthy, 100% sober for my entire life. but the trauma is real, and it doesn’t deserve to be downplayed.