Finding out the truth about my father made me feel like my whole life had been a lie. I became a very lonely person. I had a void inside me. I was very angry and bitter because of the problems in my family. Things were so bad that I began smoking at 1
I was ill so much that I could not walk properly. I also had a constant headache. I felt like there was something strangling me at night during my sleep. My ill health made me feel like there was something wrong with me because I was the only ill child among everyone I knew.
I couldn’t play with my friends outside because I was bedridden most of the time and that depressed me. Sometimes my friends at school had to take me home because I could not walk properly when I was ill. I thought that I was going to die. My family took me to different doctors, but they couldn’t diagnose my illness
From as young as six, committing suicide. I moved from one relative to another because my mother spent so much time in hospital after she was severely burnt.
Maria's husband was so angered by his wife giving birth to a baby girl with a disability, while he had been hoping for a boy, that he eventually left her for another woman.