Haywire

   After reading the essay “Haywire” by Heather Sellers, I  have a lot to think about. The important message is that children who were outcasts and suppressed by their parents were the most harm in an incomplete family. Heather Sellers grew up with her father who was a cross-dresser and her schizophrenic mother which made her life haywire. When I read of her father’s strange performance that he looked like manhood but feminine indeed, it occurred to me that he might be a gay or transgender, or a person with a mental illness utilized another way to comfort himself. Sellers’ idea is the same as mine while she didn’t exactly believe it. The question of “what was the” always confused her. On the contrary, because of this, she asked for therapists to figure out just what his sexuality was and even more, why it was. From her story, I knew that she loved her father and desired for her father’s love. In some cases, she didn’t want to be suppressed by her family so that she had to get rid of them to be independent. As for becoming a professor and having a good job, they symbolized Sellers’s independence and her ability after leaving home. This is a way to save herself from the damage. At the end of the essay, it mentioned that Sellers asked her father why he wore women’s clothes and her father responded: “You knew about that?” I had already read the ending over and over but I still didn’t understand. In my opinion, her father might be not aware of that people around him knew his strange behavior. Hence, he didn’t think he needed to hide something. In short, this essay attracted me and I hope to read more essay something like this topic.