How to Accidentally Train Your Kid to Survive

Abbey Wade
The Memoirist
Published in
13 min readJan 30, 2024

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1996 | personal archives

My alarm clock was pink. She came from Sears with the pack of undershirts they gave me for Christmas in the 3rd grade. I don’t know what happened to that alarm clock, but I can tell you that I held onto, and continued to stitch up the holes in those undershirts until the relationship ended when I was 38 years old.

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Abbey Wade
The Memoirist

Survivor of indoctrinated eating disorders, narcissist DNA & familial sexual abuse. I love mushrooms and hate mayonnaise. Team Cilantro.