I followed that story from the day she was found. She was so much like me. She looked scarily like me sometimes. She had some of the same parent problems I had, and both her parents lived in separate apartments but in the same district, just like mine did. There were money problems just like in my family. The day she went missing, she supposedly defended her father in an argument with her mother and was slapped by her mother, and that happened to me once too. That day she was also arguing with her mother over what she would wear to school, and I argued with my mother about the exact same things when I was 10 years old like she was. She was born only a month and a few days after me. She's the same age as me. I want to talk to her, but she hasn't learned English yet. And she has too many requests from people who want to talk to her. She wasn't allowed to eat and wear what she wanted during her whole 8-year captivity with Wolfgang Priklopil. Then she got out, and was suddenly treated like a human being and not a piece of s**t. She was allowed to come and go as she pleased, she could eat what she wanted and wear what she wanted and talk to people and have a life. I was so jealous. Welfare and everyone else in the f*****g world seemed to be helping her out. I was her age and I was still eating whatever my parents brought home, whether it made me feel like puking or what. I ate as much as they wanted me to eat, because if I ate too much I would be hogging. If I was hungry and my dad wasn't, I knew he would say something about my weight and how I was a spoiled brat and needed a job, so I never ever asked him for anything or even brought it up if I was hungry, even if I was asked sometimes.
Natascha probably had a worse life than me being sexually abused and I never was, but maybe not. And I think she's having a hard time now, like me, being misunderstood by most people and having all these ASSUMPTIONS made about her and how she feels or, possibly worse, what level she functions at. And this is all after she TOLD EVERYONE SEVERAL TIMES ON TV not to make assumptions about her.
Her style of dress was also very similar to mine when I was exactly her age. I liked wearing lots of things that were the same color but possibly different shades. Even if it wasn't socially acceptable, at least it was stimulating for my ADD-ness. I bet nobody yelled at Natascha to put on something else, until people in the press started commenting about how her clothes weren't FASHIONABLE.
18 Mar 2008, 4:59 pm
