![]() ![]() ![]() At an early age, Foo’s mother would beat her for the smallest infractions which included getting a C- on her journal entry, “not looking her in the eye when speaking to her…, look her in the eye with too much indignance…, sitting one leg up on the chair ‘like a trishaw puller’ or using American slang…, opening the plastic covering on her People magazine after it arrived in the mail.” The forms of domestic and academic discipline Foo’s mother employs reveals her need to forge Foo into the “perfect daughter,” but this childhood abuse and later abandonment when Foo does not live up to her parents’ expectations are the cause of Foo’s C-PTSD diagnosis.Īmy Chua with her daughters, Lulu and Sophia. Foo never holds anything back in terms of the violence done to her body. Foo’s life story-she was a radio producer known for her work on This American Life which garnered her a Daytime Emmy nomination-has all the trappings of the “typical” Asian American success story, yet her successes veiled the cost of such achievements. ![]() In What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing From Complex Trauma, Stephanie Foo documents her life coming to terms with past abuse and neglect from her parents and her diagnosis of complex PTSD (C-PTSD). ![]()
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