Week Six: Do I See Myself?

Well, I'd be lying if I said that I didn't relate at least a little to the therapy scenes in Lena Dunham's piece. I did end up having flashbacks to my own therapy experiences where I also played with some of the toys in the therapist's office, the difference is that my parents were also there to talk with the therapist. It's a small thing, but it's something I took notice to regardless.

I can't bring myself to say that Lena Dunham overtold her story. It felt like her writing all that down was her own form of self-therapy. Would it have been better if she had trimmed it down? I'm not sure, but certain details were necessary (like what she was afraid of before therapy) in order to create a clear picture. Cousins, on the other hand, I can only describe as incomplete. I feel like I opened up a book, read the last page, and then closed it. If this is the ending of the person's friendship with this girl, then they undertold it and it needed to be longer. If the events prior to this aren't worth writing about, then they overtold a story that didn't need to be told.

I have little reason to believe that both stories are anything but the truth. Cousins I believe is the truth. Overdramatized and overwritten but I believe that it happened. Lena Dunham's story felt a little TOO real. Like it would feel like some sort of sick joke to learn that she made most of it up. The only thing from that that I could think of as being faked was the friendship between her and the therapist's daughter. But I still feel like it could've happened. You know what they say, sometimes truth is stranger than fiction.

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  1. The Wadering WiterFebruary 22, 2021 at 5:18 PM

    Wow never thought about Lena’s story to be made up that makes me see the story differently now.

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