Siblings Experience Oppression of sibling BARRIERS TO PEER SUPPORT Barriers to Support voice Barriers to talk Interviewer: Do they, and do they come round to play here? Barriers to peer Molly: Sometimes they do but not often. support Interviewer: Ok so where do you play with your friends then? Sweep it under the Molly: Erm at school and at their house and at my house…sometimes. carpet Interviewer: So why do they not come round here very often? Avoidance and Molly: Because erm [long pause] because my Mum erm always erm hasn’t talked to their Mum yet. (Lines denial 73-79) OPPRESSION OF SIBLING VOICE Lauren: I’ve never been asked that before. (Line 161) Lauren: I’ve never really found anyone that’d willingly speak about it cos I think a lot of people are still finding it hard, and I guess they’ll always find it hard to speak about erm, but it’d be nice, you know to have that thing in common, be able you know to say you know how I felt… (Lines 548-552) BARRIERS TO TALK Lauren: …and I can’t really talk to Mum about it, erm one she’ll get defensive and two it’ll just upset her even more… (Lines221-222) AVOIDANCE AND DENIAL / SWEEP IT UNDER THE CARPET Lauren: I try not to think about it too much and I know that’s probably not the best way to go about it just
Siblings Experience Barriers to Support Oppression of sibling voice Barriers to talk Barriers to peer support Sweep it under the carpet Avoidance and denial BARRIERS TO PEER SUPPORT Interviewer: Do they, and do they come round to play here? Molly: Sometimes they do but not often. Interviewer: Ok so where do you play with your friends then? Molly: Erm at school and at their house and at my house…sometimes. Interviewer: So why do they not come round here very often? Molly: Because erm [long pause] because my Mum erm always erm hasn’t talked to their Mum yet. (Lines 73-79) OPPRESSION OF SIBLING VOICE Lauren: I’ve never been asked that before. (Line 161) Lauren: I’ve never really found anyone that’d willingly speak about it cos I think a lot of people are still finding it hard, and I guess they’ll always find it hard to speak about erm, but it’d be nice, you know to have that thing in common, be able you know to say you know how I felt… (Lines 548-552) BARRIERS TO TALK Lauren: …and I can’t really talk to Mum about it, erm one she’ll get defensive and two it’ll just upset her even more… (Lines221-222) AVOIDANCE AND DENIAL / SWEEP IT UNDER THE CARPET Lauren: I try not to think about it too much and I know that’s probably not the best way to go about it just
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