| About Soojin Yeh | I was born in Korea in May 29, 1989. My mom died of cancer when I was one, my dad re-married my stepmother when I was 3 and I was made to believe that my stepmother was my mother until I was 15. What’s it like to live in Korea? Well you have to study for like 20 hrs a day cause they’re really extreme about education and you have to study 24/7! I came to the US with my parents when I was 8. I was physically disciplined and beaten with sticks although that kind of thing is normal in Korea. And when I was 11 my dad started sexually abusing me. I was also very severely and violently bullied in school for being Asian and repeatedly beaten for my ethnicity. When I came out about the sexual abuse at 14 my family turned against me, didn’t believe me, and blamed me for everything, so I ran away from home and was placed into foster care. In foster care the racist bullying continued and I was fighting a lot and going to a whole lot of foster homes, like 35. Because I was defending myself cause I was still being bullied and harrassed everywhere I went for being Asian. Then at 15 my social worker told me that my “mom” was actually my stepmom and that my real mom was dead. I went into Sheppard Pratt (a lockdown facility) after that for two years, then went into more foster homes. Then I was an escort for a while and I got kidnapped by a client. Then I was homeless for a year when I was 22. I also still receive lots of racism and get jumped and raped a lot. And I went back to Korea to visit my mother that’s buried in Korea. |
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