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5 April 2020 Sunday
Xth day of the fucking quarantine
how an adult supports a puber in these times?
I guess through, like supporting anyone else, by understanding what that person is going through,
or by creating space and possibilities for that person to express what they are going through.
And this does not always leads to understanding what that person goes through.
How does one create a space for a puber to express their feelings and needs in such a
situation? Especially if there is a constant resistance to any interaction, negative reaction and
intolerance expressed, the excessive aggressiveness...
I do not know and I feel like I do not have the tools to be patient, and understanding, in a situation
where what I need is a base of solidarity, a base of support and not constant fight. But how fair is it
to "blame" a puber child for this? It is not. But how to make that puber child that they are effecting
me? I can say it over and over, and repetition is sometimes helpful and sometimes just makes them
turn off any possible perception towards me and my communication or needs.

Watching, The Body of My Enemy, French film, directed by Henri Verneuil, starring Jean-Paul Belmondo. He was convicted of killing two, and got imprisoned 7 years ago, and gets out and goes back to his city. People remember him, everyone is a little afraid but also unsure how to be with him. He is a super boring witty I know it all guy, and what I liked the most is that they didn't try to make him look younger in his flashback scenes of him telling us what happened, he said, one never remembers oneself younger, one remembers the memories with their current age. So he is this much older guy in the scenes from ten plus years ago. And the viewer constantly needs to remember imagining him younger in each scene.