QUOTE : I’m sorry, too. It’s not you I’m upset with. Not really. My parents used to bring me to events back when they still had dreams of me, their glorious firstborn, carrying on the family legacy. They thought if they forced me to ‘push through’ the discomfort it would eventually go away and I would grow out of it. But unfortunately, their attempts seemed to have the opposite effect. <br />It took me going into a full-on panic at one of his speeches when I was eight for them to stop. It was so bad I ended up in the hospital.