Truddi chase autobiography for kids
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Truddi chase autobiography for kids
Truddi Chase
American writer (1935–2010)
Truddi Chase (June 13, 1935 – March 10, 2010) was an American author. She is best known for the book When Rabbit Howls (1987), an autobiography about her experiences after being diagnosed with dissociative identity disorder.
Life
According to her own account, Chase was born on a homestead near Honeoye Falls, New York, and grew up in an apartment in the same town.[1] In her autobiography and in numerous interviews, Chase said that she was repeatedly and violently sexually and physically abused by her stepfather and beaten and neglected by her mother during her childhood and teenage years.[2] By her report, she had always remembered that molestation and abuse occurred from the age of two onwards but that she could not focus on details before going into therapy.[1] According to her autobiography, Truddi Chase was not her actual birth name.[3][4] At age 16, she ran away from her