![]() And so when I presented the information, they both denied it or accused me of lying about it, which was really heartbreaking to me that they thought that of me. ![]() And my father was traveling a lot, so he also didn't spend as much time with my mom as I did. I think my brother was home visiting for the holidays because at that time he didn't live with us, so he didn't witness any of this himself. And so I took this information first to my father and my brother. And so I noticed that her symptoms, if we're going to call them "symptoms," matched what I found in the DSM under schizophrenia, under paranoid schizophrenia, specifically. But I sort of snuck away during my lunch recess in high school to check out some books in the library about mental illness. I didn't know what to make of it or what was going to happen to her. ![]() On trying as a teenager to get help for her mother She started to say things like, 'Well, Ronald Reagan has our phones tapped,'" Cho says. "It sounded like she was arguing with somebody who wasn't in the room. Cho also noticed that her mother began talking to herself. She cooked elaborate meals for their white neighbors and for Cho's teachers, and she began foraging the nearby forests for wild mushrooms and blackberries.īut when Cho was a teenager, Koonja suddenly stopped foraging - which Cho found surprising, since that had been one of her mother's favorite activities. ![]() In those early years, Cho's mother, Koonja, turned to the kitchen as a way to cope. "I also started to notice that these kinds of things also happened to my mother, sometimes in ways that were even more dramatic than what I had experienced." "Children used to tease me and bully me for being Asian," Cho says. They settled in a small, rural town in Washington state, where they were among the only immigrants in the community. as a baby, with her Korean mother and her father, a white American who served in the Merchant Marines. Cho is an associate professor of sociology and anthropology at the CUNY College of Staten Island. ![]()
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