My Time to Stand by Gypsy-Rose Blanchard

BATB score: 7/10 🤯

BATB loves victim’s memoir - own your story 💪 yeah! from the front page news, the unbelievable tragic story, the imprisonment, the documentary, “The Act” movie spin off; yes girl, you tell your story!

Best for: you need prior knowledge on Dee Dee and Gypsy case, extreme Munchausen by Proxy, actually very famous case you should know

BATB TL;DR: “When Dee Dee Blanchard was twenty-four years old, she gave life to me. When I was nearly twenty-four years old, I took life from her.”

Best to: what happened - how her mother was killing her - and what happened after - serving 8 years imprisonment for killing her mother 💯

Best as: a reminder that life goes on; you can always restart your story

BATB lingering thought: damn, BATB was there in Kansas City, Missouri exactly when all this was happening

Best quotes: “For all the trauma inflicted on my body since childhood, it’s the scar that isn’t there that always travels with me.”

“Getting attention and drawing it are two different things.”

“To my unborn baby, when you are one day ready to read your mama’s story and learn of your ancestry, I want you to know that every choice that I have made in my life, whether it be wrong or right, has been with the hope of having you.”