The Exit the Pattern Declaration

We are the children who grew up too soon.
The peacekeepers.
The parentified.
The eldest daughters.
The fixers.
The overachievers.
The ones who learned to read the room before we learned to read ourselves.

We were told to keep the peace.
Keep the secret.
Keep everyone else comfortable.

Not anymore.

We tell the truth.
We honor the child who survived.
We protect the adult we have become.
We refuse to pass on what nearly broke us.

We do not glorify survival.
We ask why survival was necessary.

We do not rewrite the past.
We rewrite what gets passed on.

We are the cycle breakers.
We are the interruption.
We are Exit the Pattern.

Collect Exit Routes. Use them often.