How important is “proof”?
Like how do I “prove” my story?
Do they just get a private investigator to investigate me?
How about like sibling abuse? How am I supposed to prove that? Like it happens at home and there are no witnesses besides… well us… it’s a “he said she said” situation.
What about like events in another country that was born in and lived in for a bit of my early childhood.
Like…
Damn I feel like I’m gonna have to self-publish it and them nobody is gonna believe me…
Oh well…
I guess I’ll just have to feel like many of those victims that nobody ever believes…
idiomaddict@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Required to be published as a memoir.
Corroboration from others, photographs, medical/police reports, receipts, travel documents, the normal ways.
No, you have to bring receipts.
Medical records, photographs of bruises/marks, checking with friends or teachers you might have told about the abuse at the time.
DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
If its required, how the fuck did “A Million Little Pieces” get published?
Also, I could just Kindle Direct Publish it… whatever… its not like I care that much about money, I just want my story to be heard.
idiomaddict@lemmy.world 2 days ago
They began requiring it after and in response to that- that’s the James Frey scandal I mentioned.