infantilisation

• We had flannelette sheets, like children’s, and army issue blankets, the old ones that still said US
• Yesterday morning I went to the doctor. Was taken
• Crouching like that, she’s like a doll, an old one that’s been pillaged and discarded
• when he put his arms around me, gathering me up, I was small as a doll
• when he looks up at me it’s at a juvenile angle. It must amuse him, this fake subservience.