My Life With Amelia - Ch. 22 - Crashing and burning

[MangaDex]

 

[razorshaleh]

sad flashback now we know why Amelia has a burn scar

 

[kingarthur020500]

That's somehow worse than I was expecting

 

[Matau228]

Aw, despite their anger, they both immediately make sure that Amelia is okay when she wakes up.

...And that makes it worse. To Amelia, it must seem like their love for her is what got them killed.

 

[KafukaPalazzo]

Oh...

 

[Simkin]

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!

(sound warning)

 

[Karothat]

So, she wasn't driving. Which means it is survivor's guilt.

 

[Jaxxenman]

She doesn’t have any burns yet in the last panel… the pain for her hasn’t ended yet. Is she gonna be stuck in the car while it’s on fire?

 

[alpharock]

Ahhh, so she probably blames herself for the accident.

(It was not your fault Amelia )

 

[Hakira]

Oh no... It looks like the other car ran the light because cars don't flip like that unless you really hit it hard.

 

[AzureLightning]

Even worse than a DUI, distracted driving into a T-bone collision. Now i understand why she blames herself, but this isn't wholly her fault either.

 

[Firestorm252]

I'm surprised she got away with fairly light injuries.

I get it scars 'n stuff, but from the backseat of an old beater, I cracked a collarbone and a travel case smacking into me cracked a rib during a wreck. And I had a three point belt on. I only remember until just before the impact, too. Next bit I remember was inside the ambulance.
It looks like their car took it on the side, so I presume she's in the flipped one? Being unrestrained in a rollover wreck is no bueno. That's a very real ejection onto hard pavement risk.

 

[BKNY_STEVE]

That's completely, unequivocally her father's fault. He's the one driving. It's his responsibility and his responsibility alone to drive safely. Yes, yes, it was very sweet of him to be concerned about her. But he was driving.

I was driving once and my son decided to show me a freaking video. While I was driving. And I didn't stop him. Thanks be to God I actually steered out of an accident that almost happened because I was driving distracted. I pulled over, calmed myself, and gently told him that that was never going to happen again. Because if I'd raised my voice, I'd have lost my mind. The accident would have been my fault for not doing what I needed to do: safely drive the f'ing car.

 

[Orpheus7]

"When is it ever her fault" crash

Me:

 

[nljm]

Hollllyyyy shiiiiitttttttt

 

[AnotherAverageReader]

Yeah, thank you, Amelia's parents, for giving her the guilt that wasn't hers.

 

[moblinsecret]

Oh no... It looks like the other car ran the light because cars don't flip like that unless you really hit it hard.

It could equally be that their car was the one that went through a red light into traffic

 

[SUSmaster274329]

Even worse than a DUI, distracted driving into a T-bone collision. Now i understand why she blames herself, but this isn't wholly her fault either.

No, the context from this chapter makes it entirely not her fault. As long as her brother and dad died on impact and nothing more happened afterwords.

 

[ResidentialVisitor]

No, the context from this chapter makes it entirely not her fault. As long as her brother and dad died on impact and nothing more happened afterwords.

It's certainly not her fault, and Simon will likely try to make her see that. But survivor's guilt is difficult enough to overcome on its own, let alone when it's tangled up with the belief that none of them would have been in that place at that moment if not for something she set in motion.

 

[SUSmaster274329]

It's certainly not her fault, and Simon will likely try to make her see that. But survivor's guilt is difficult enough to overcome on its own, let alone when it's tangled up with the belief that none of them would have been in that place at that moment if not for something she set in motion.

I didn't mean that her guilt was unnatural, it's far from it. The comment I responded to said:

"this isn't wholly her fault either."

I corrected it by saying that it is absolutely not her fault whatsoever.
Whether her guilt is natural or not is another matter.