Originally Posted by Gem

I usually don't do personal stuff on these threads, but under the circumstances I think a small disclosure would be OK.

I had a thing I used to do which I called conversations with myself (it was a toungue in cheek 'Conversations with God' joke really) but they were serious conversations.

Children would come and talk to me, and when I was a little child, my parents were in turmoil and I wanted to run away, but I was too small and the world was big and scary.

The Kid came and told me, so I took him and we ran away together... and he told me the stuff he liked and I had to make a place in my mind where he felt safe and could play... and it took time, but he came to trust me because he could be himself, he could hate his parents and eff the world, and I didn't care, I liked it.

So there ya go, that's my personal bit.