no one is actually abandoning anyone.
she wanted better for her kid, she wanted her kid to grow up not getting bullied and she thought she would probably die from AIDS so she gave him to an orphanage to give him a better life
i think she was strongly impacted by her terminal illness. and yes shame too, stigma around aids is severe and literally deadly. so the combo of the mental damage from her abusive partner + terminal diagnosis + complete lack of community support put her in a spot where her child’s words resonated and she thought she might actually be doing him a favor.
I get it. But nope. As a child whose mother’s left cause of “doing a favor”. People who abandon their children no matter the reason ain’t doing nobody but themselves a favor. That was my pov and that’s his pov. Because the damage you cause to that child are irreparable. Okay protecting a little clueless child is one thing but even after he grew up she never reached out. Not once.
Im sorry but whatttt. When I was 6, I told my grandma I wanted her to die ( I was dramatic like that). She whooped my ass, fed me and send me to bed.
She had no reason to abandon the child. It’s all bcuz of her shame. She should’ve just whooped that kids ass to bed. Saying a child can « abandon » a parent is mental.
The author could’ve chosen any backstory from she was threatened to > she was a meth head. Something that holds up But no.