American - Educator | July 9, 1987 -
No one knows how they would react to a horrible situation until it happens to them.
Amanda Knox
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In a time when my entire family had already tapped into their retirement savings and taken out second mortgages, we were grateful when any supporters, including Trump, donated to my defense and spoke out about my innocence.
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Even if Trump means well, his schemes tend to be blunt, selfish, and short-sighted rather than nuanced, empathetic, and thought through.
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Politics is not a tit-for-tat game. It's not 'I helped you, now you help me.'
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I would prefer to be famous for something I did or built or achieved.
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Like most millennials, I have the bad, anxiety-inducing habit of grabbing my phone in the morning and scrolling through social media for 15, 20 minutes before I'm fully awake.
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When you meet me and hang out with me, I might come across as a very upbeat, driven person. I don't come across as someone who is wounded.
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People can take, take, take from you. There are people whose profession is to do that. It's entertainment at the cost of human lives.
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It's almost like living a double life where I'm in a limbo space where Amanda Knox, a real person, exists, 'Foxy Knoxy,' an idea of a person, exists, and I'm constantly having to juggle how someone is interacting with me based upon that two-dimensional person of me that has been in the public's imagination for so long.
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There are those who believe in my innocence and those who believe in my guilt. There is no in-between.
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If I'm guilty, I'm the ultimate figure to fear, because I'm not the obvious one. But, on the other hand, if I'm innocent, it means that everyone is vulnerable, and that is everyone's nightmare. Either I'm a psychopath in sheep's clothing, or I am you.
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A good way to vilify women is by attacking their sexuality.
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