![]() ![]() When lockdown hit, I was a little girl who had never gone anywhere alone. Eva Yacobi, 14Įva Yacobi lives in the south of England and is taking her GCSEs next year I’ve realised I want to be closer to my loving family and my old grandad in Poland. I’ve realised that I need to acknowledge who is there and connect with them. But people are still dying, from Covid and from other diseases. During lockdown I thought the urgency of that truth would end when lockdown ended. The other thing that I’ve realised even more strongly since lockdown ended is that family comes, but that it goes too. I want to take that further now, and move away from the city environment entirely. I’ve tried school again but I realise that being at home is really good for my mental health, so I would like to stay here and not go back any more.Īlso, in the time since lockdown ended, I’ve looked back at my time isolated at home and realised that I really enjoyed getting closer to nature. After giving up so much for lockdown then trying my hardest – but failing – to go back to school, I also have this thought that I should be getting what I want now with no compromise. I think the problems I’ve had since my return to school have helped us realise this: I always did not like the noise of school, but going back after staying peacefully at home for so long has been so bad for me that I feel I can’t stay there. ![]() Recently, my parents and school suspected that I have a spectrum autism. I have realised that, after the peace of lockdown, I have built a barrier in my mind: I don’t even want to step on school grounds because the noise is too much and I feel people have changed – they seem cruel and dishonest. It was OK when I first went back to school but in recent months I have stopped wanting to interact with people. Covid affected me because after spending all that time on my own, I have become very distant to my social life and friends, and forgotten, really, how to make friends or be with children my own age.
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