We deny MDT the same reason we let others get away with treating us so poorly. Whether co-workers, landlords, customers or political representatives, we allow mistreatment because MDT normalized it. Taboo prevents us from understanding, acknowledging and accepting this, as a result denying feeling ripped off, ignored or eclipsed by the moon (i.e. the mother wound) is a “normal”, it is a misguided attempt to minimize the pain of maternal abandonment and abuse because it achieves the opposite.