General Article Leanne - 'My experience of neglect'

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Life at home


We led a very chaotic life, moving house all the time. The houses were in bad condition and always dirty. I remember not washing enough, my clothes being dirty, and my hair being messy. At school the kids would call me ‘smelly’ and ‘dirty’ and I was bullied all the time. The bullying got so bad that the bullies said that if they saw me out of school they’d kill me. I was really scared that they might.
I was often left to cook my own dinner and do the cleaning. There was no table ...

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