00:00I was born into a family where child was the norm.
00:05It was my father who heard me out,
00:08but it was his mother that trained me
00:11into being the best child worker I could be.
00:18I was a child and I knew no different.
00:21From the time I was born, I was being...
00:24And so up until the age of four and a half,
00:28it was extended family and his friends
00:32that I would be two and he would get paid for.
00:38So that was my life.
00:41The impact on me as I was growing up
00:44was to be a non-person.
00:47Couldn't identify with myself
00:49because neither parent identified me
00:54as a person or a child that needed care protection.
00:59I didn't know who I was,
01:01which meant I developed a very highly evolved false self.
01:07And what that meant was I ended up putting on a show
01:13or putting a mask, if you like, in front of my face
01:16and being whatever people needed me to be
01:20because if I didn't, it was just
01:23the consequences weren't good for me
01:25and I would get lost or locked away somewhere.
01:29And what the hell Yeah.
01:29What the hell yeah?
