This may be a bit left-field and controversial, but does anyone else get the impression that Louises life of 'abuse' is possibly slightlyyyy exaggerated? It came to my mind after the video about her dad saying her getting off the bed was an earthquake. I feel like she's been through what a lot of us have growing up in the 70's/80's/90's. Parents didn't always have the knowledge they have now. Being smacked, dragged by the ear for making a mess, some jibes were pretty normal, at least for me and my friends. My mother once threw a plate with a sandwich when I spat it out and told her it was disgusting. That would now be classed as abuse but honestly, it was just the way it was back then. My mother is amazing and we have a fabulous relationship. It was just how things were done. Parents usually parented how their own parents did. I have a feeling the abuse she suffered was more mild than she makes out. I don't doubt her step mother was a bitch to her, and I 100% think her dad moving on so fast was wrong BUT I think THAT was the biggest trauma for Louise. Loosing her mother, having a new woman in the home she didn't like, her father moving on was a big problem. I think a lot of Louises recollections of life events are just through the eyes of a grieving child who has now become very namby pamby and overly 'gentle parenting' esque - and the life events are being embellished in books and on the internet for a profit. I imagine the abuser was just a very bitter and strict Persian mother. Of course, I could be totally wrong and Louise really was severely abused, But I just can't see it happening in the dynamic its being told in. Just my two pence.
