[Birdy]

- If you started harming yourself at a young age, what type of harm was it? Did you cut/burn/whatever, or was it smaller and simpler, like head banging etc?

I used to try and cut my fingers off with scissors but I never drew blood, and I used to scratch, nip and bite myself. I think I was about 7/8 when I started doing this and it grew more serious when I was 14.

- If you made visible harm (eg. cuts) at the younger ages, did you realise it was self harm? Did you make an attempt to hide it with the knowledge we now have?

I didn't make visible harm but I didn't realise what I was doing was like a form of self-harm anyway. And only recently I remembered that I used to do nd realised it was a form of self-harm even then as I did it when I felt like I was being a bad person.