Hi. This is Spencer, for Spencer Reads on Unpretending’s Substack.
It’s been a really long time, and I’m really sorry that I haven’t been able to read Freeing Finch, cause a really sad thing happened and I ended up going under my bed and then I got stuck there and I couldn’t come out. And then a happy thing happened, and then I-all of a sudden, I was here again.
So I’m just sitting here in my bedroom here, that’s not my bedroom on the inside, it’s the bedroom here on the outside, and I’ve got my puppy dog next to me. And there’s some birds out the window, and there’s nobody in the house cause school went back and that’s really cool because, every five minutes you don’t have somebody coming and saying they want something, because that’s what they do, and anyway.
This-this is um a really good book and-and anyway, it’s called Freeing Finch and it’s written by Ginny Rorby and she has given us permission to read it on our Substack. Published by Tom Doughty Associates. They you go.
Alright, this is chapter 3, and I don’t know if you remember, but in these chapters, they’re got little roman numerals and it’s like little sections of the chapter. Chapter 1 and Chapter 2 were part one of the book.
And this is part two and chapter 3, number 1. K, are you ready? Freeing Finch, part two, chapter 3, number 1.
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Transcript continues at 12 minutes, 38 seconds, where Spencer discusses how the chapter relates to them.
That’s the end of chapter 3. I am going to read chapter 4, but I just wanna say a few things, because oh my goodness! This body I’m in is a girl’s body, do you know what? I don’t know why, I remember that I didn’t like using the bathroom either, and I’d hold on. I don’t know why.
I didn’t like getting changed in front of the other girls either, and I don’t know why. That’s real strange because that’s high school (for us), and I can remember that but… I didn’t think it was me.
Anyway…,
I think these people here (in us), they know a lot about trees. They use to know all the names and stuff like, the proper like names, in this other language. Um, Latin they say. These days they’ve forgot a lot of them. But there’s some really cool trees on this-on this one here, that I don’t even know about, I want to go and find them.
There’s always mean girls isn’t there. Boys always didn’t bother us, they just left us alone mostly. Except for this boy, when I was in year 2…, no-o-o, I might have been in year 5, I can’t remember. He threw his lunchbox at me! I can’t remember why he did that, my nose bled. Anyway, they didn’t care (most probably teachers), but that’s just how it was.
See, I wanna-I wanna, learn about Huckleberries, and whatever are Manzantia, and a Wax Myrtle and Doug Firs, and Grand Firs, and Ancient Red Woods. I wonder if they’re massive! When I go to America, the oak trees there are so big, and squirrels are everywhere.
In Australia do you know what they did? It’s really sad. You see when they came over, they saw all the wood on the trees, and the trees were ancient trees like maybe a thousand years old. And they chopped them all down to make farmland and used some of them to make houses and cities and stuff. But do you know what? They took…, they took it all back to the country they came from, cause that’s what they thought, that they could go to a country and take whatever they like because, it’s like finders-keepers…, even if other people found it first. Makes me real mad.
Yesterday, this person was pulling off a tree branch, just because they wanted to get a tractor in there and it was in the way, someone in us got real mad and got angry at them and said, “At least you should use the proper tools and not just rip it off like that!”
(Here Spencer remembers they are talking about chapter 3.)
Orr anyway I forgot. But I-I understand that her taking the money. There was no point me taking money from my mum, she-she didn’t have any money. She use to hide it cause my brother would take it. We didn’t have a lot of money at all, she said (the mum) it was because of our dad. But if they (people in us) look back now, he had a good job, there’s no reason we shouldn’t of had any mon…, like, they-we-should of-they’re-we’re…, we shouldn’t have been poor, he had a good job. I don’t understand why we were poor.
But anyway, I’m not even going to think about it and I’m gunna read chapter 4.
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Unpretending Spontaneous is the name used by a Multiple System from Australia, the technical term is currently called DID - Dissociative Identity Disorder. This blogcast is our journey as we attempt to function well in society as a multiple while healing from our traumatic past.