I remember adults being really dismissive of how I was feeling, and it never helped." "Maybe because I keep telling the stories. "I remember what it felt like to be a kid so profoundly," Hale said. She's never dismissive of childhood struggles, and she never paints them as temporary and meaningless - things that will cease to matter when they gain some real-life perspective. One of the things I love best about Hale's writing, particularly in "Real Friends," is the respect with which she handles kids' feelings. It's amazing the way stories can work that way." "But when a reader can feel what I was feeling, they can use the story to examine their own feelings and their own life in a much more intimate way than if I was trying to preach a moral lesson or tell them what to do or what not to do. "Most readers won't have gone through the exact things I went through," she said. What's universal, Hale said, is the emotion.
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