505 Walnut
“I don’t really stand out anywhere in the family”
Nate, 24
“Well it depends who you ask, some people would say I’m above the rest, a goodie good but I like to think that most of them like me”
Tricia, 50
“I think with some family I’m completely accepted and with other family I think when stuff happened with Cheyenne in 2007 they didn’t ever know the details, didn’t care to know the details and judged me as a terrible person or a bad mom. So since then I don’t think I’ve been accepted. I mean
people don’t call me to ask me to go to lunch, people don’t tell me what’s going on unless there’s an
emergency… so that kind of hurts and sucks… but I mean,
I know I’m a good person”
Anna, 38
“I know what they think of me”
Paul, 43
“I don’t really think about it very much. I figure they’re gonna think what they’re gonna think, I mean, nothing I do is gonna change that. So I’m just gonna be who I am. I work all the time, I come home and I work on my house, well, most of the time”
Jenni, 51
Marissa and Bri, Halloween 1990's
“I feel like the family judges me because they say me and my mom and my family put grandma and grandpa under stress. They put resentment towards us for them helping us is what I feel. So now I’m the outcast because I didn’t do anything right”
Marcus, 23
‘I think they do perceive me as a handy man like if they need something fixed because there’s nobody else close that can really do it but I don’t mind doing it, it’s my family. So I do it. Sometimes I know it interrupts what I’m trying to get done here but it’s just part of it I guess”
David, 56
“I don’t really know how to put it into words... It’s been something that I’ve sort of struggled with. Just, how the family perceives me versus how we grew up and then versus what I have now. Maybe I’m a little self-righteous. I think maybe I get in people’s business too much… maybe? I would say I’m opinionated and I don’t have a problem with telling people that. Maybe that’s what people don’t like about me. I would hope people would see that I care about the family. I do wonder especially after everything with mom and dad…”
Helen, 42
“Normal. Not ever really around. Almost just a stranger, that comes around every once in a while. Not trying to be but-”
Jake, 21
“I’m probably judged for being a single mom, and just the fact that…the way that I had my kid I guess and not being married. I feel like, I’m not judged as much as a lot of people in our family are but if somebody were to say something about me that would probably be it”
Brianna, 23
“I think they would say, “Honestly, she’s a little weird”. Sometimes when we hang out as a family I think that they don’t really know I’m even there you know, that it’s just kind of my mom and everyone else”
Sierra, 14
“I don’t know”
Gracie, 12
