I know that it's on trend to imagine the myth of Persephone as consensual and romantic (and not incestuous) but Kore has always spoken to me as someone who was also deeply traumatized in youth but takes ownership of her fate.
It's been almost 20 years of this. In the beginning, they were very confused as to why I didn't become an "enlightened" person with a "fresh look on life". I told them straight up that those stories are not my reality. I had to FIGHT objectification into the "perfect disabled".
It's so DAMAGING when your parents tell you that their primary reflection from their kid ALMOST DYING is "rethinking their values". I ALMOST DIED. I HAVE A PERMANENT DISABILITY. I DID NOT GET HIT BY A CAR FOR SOMEONE ELSE'S PERSONAL GROWTH.