The Truth About Growing Up with an Absent Father

Tom Stone
Invisible Illness
Published in
8 min readJun 18, 2020

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Honestly, I hope I’m not the only one

Turning up to adulthood after a father-less childhood is like stepping out of a taxi in a foreign city on a different continent. Everything looks strange. Confusing. Unfamiliar. The road signs don’t make sense and everybody is walking around you acting like they know where they are going. They are oblivious to the fact that on the inside…

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Tom Stone
Invisible Illness

Lead R.E. Teacher, Non-fiction writer on spirituality and faith, Father of 3, Husband, Gardener, Reader,