Could you forgive your childhood bully? Katy Wix confronts a painful memory
I read Wix’s “autobiography in 20 cakes” Delicacy last year and loved it - her writing is so good with a lightness that both flags and obscures the crushing sadness of growing up and then being an adult who went through growing up. This could have been a standard Guardian Lifestlye piece but her writing… omg…
How bad was it, really? I didn’t wear a sleeveless top in public until I was 32, because of what she said about my shoulders, but it could have been worse: I could have been 35. I only spent a year in speech therapy to get rid of my lisp. And I’ve only mentioned her about once a month in therapy, definitely not every week. How do you calculate the impact another person has had on you? Well, it’s either ruined my life, or it’s fine.