[rain falling]
[thunder crashes]
- Abuse, neglect.
- What is wrong with me? [thunder claps loudly]
- I mean, why does the brain change?
- Significant cognitive and emotional disability.
- Your mother didn't show up
and your father didn't show up.
- The trauma that they're enduring
just seems to be more severe and more long-lasting.
[police sirens]
- Never said, "I'm sorry."
[woman suppressing crying] - And I am still working through things
that happened to me when I was 10.
- There's ghosts in the nursery.
- I literally didn't know what to do.
- People say, "Well, you won't have enough time."
- If we could go back in time maybe...
- That's all we have.
[woman chokes back tears] - I don't think giving up
is really an option.
- There's not enough apologies
that one could give to say, "I'm sorry."
Sorry... [echoing "Sorry, sorry, sorry"]
- Funding for Not Enough Apologies: Trauma Stories
was provided by
Focus Fund for Journalism
and Friends of Wisconsin Public Television.