My stolen childhood, and a life to rebuild | Sheila Humphries | TEDxPerth

Love you my mummy, I am your first born twin, I love you very much and thank you for everything you've done for me, I am now 60years old, I have my own family, my husband, two girls, two boys, one grandson, I lost my dad& husband, and one of my son's, my mum had six daughters and.two sons , who all have families of their own now thank you mum

Anyone who says indigenous Australians need to get over these horrors need to watch this. This happened to people's parents and grandparents! I just want to say thank you to all indigenous Australians for staying strong and using your voices to educate the rest of us xx

Oh Aunty, I cried and cried listening to you telling the tragic story of your childhood. I'm still crying now. I wish I could take away all the pain. My late mum was brought up as a white girl. Her true heritage was stolen from her. Her white mother forbade her going into the sun, and when she accidentally got darker in summer Nana tried to strangle her. Nana was always so cruel to my mum. Her niece saved her life. Mum didn't know she was Aboriginal until just before she died 10 yrs ago. The white relatives thought it was time she knew. It sure answered many questions for us. And now I'm lost. You are a beautiful woman, Aunty, your husband must have been a very good man, and you certainly deserved to have been married to him 🖤💛❤️

I hope someone outside of Australia picks this up and makes a movie out of it. The world needs to hear these stories.

Oh Aunty 😔. My mum (nicknamed Tubby) went to St Joseph's with you. She never spoke about the bad stuff. It's heart wrenching to hear. My heart goes out to you and all our families who continue to cope with this atrocious history. In the last 10 years I've met 2 sisters and 1 brother who were taken away.

What an absolute legend. I only saw this for a school assignment, but what an incredible person...

"We think your children will die if they go home with you, let us take them" "My girls are grandmother's today" That's fucken powerful man, ever since I started the Indigenous Health part of my nursing degree I've been binge watching stories like this. It's honestly incredible the amount of metal the Indigenous Australian's have

I am in tears and we never understand how they can justify what they have done. Very sorry for the heartache you suffer.

I watched that movie: 'A long walk home' And it made me feel furious, sad and ashamed. I'm German, born 1953. It took me years to walk upright and to realise that I didn't take part in killing 6 Million Jews and other Minorities. But I am responsible to do everything in my surroundings and what is possible for me to avoid that people suffer because of their beliefs, colour of skin, gender, religion or nationality. It's not enough that it is written in the constitution. It has to be lived each day. It is very brave of this lady to bring this subject into public eventhough it is painful to speak about it. It is as necessary as important never to be forgotten also for the indigenous people in Canada and USA. I hope and pray that the wounds will heal. God bless you and your family, all tribes and all you out there. Very touching comments❣🙏🌈

I'm in tears, this was so upsetting to hear. I cannot fathom how people can treat other humans like that.

Why would this be done to anyone? I can't imagine even criminals being treated this way. My heart goes out to this woman and her family and others like her❤

The cruelty never touched her Pure heart. Love and respect To you .

As a woman who was born here, I identify as Australian, my ancestry is English. I am so sorry for what you went through. Thank you for sharing your story. I imagine telling your story is immensely painful. You are already helping others, and educating others on what happened, and for that I am so grateful. As I get older I am learning so much about Australian history. My eldest son has a beautiful teacher, married to an indigenous man. They educate our kids, but more importantly us parents, who may not have known better. Our school is better for their presence, and what they do educating the school community about aboriginal culture. I feel things changing, and I hope the future is far more accepting. My son is intensely interested in aboriginal art, and on a recent hospital visit we encountered lots of aboriginal art. He taught me about what the paintings meant, and it made me so proud. Again, I am so sorry for what you were put through.

Australia has so much to apologise for. It took 200 years to create this mess, let's hope it doesn't take 200 years to sort it out.

This broke my heart. The cruelties of this world are beyond my comprehension. The absolute disregard for humanity. I often wonder if I want to bring children of my own into such a dark world. Anyway, I admire this lady and her courage and I pray that the remainder of her life is filled with nothing but happiness and contentment.

I am a former foster child. Everything that happened to her has happened to me on some level. Although I didn't experience the extreme physical abuse like she did, the displacement, the going from home to home and the insecurities are still as vivid today as they were over 50 years ago. Foster children and orphans are set to the wolves with no one to defend them. We are bullied at school and unloved at home. If we are lucky like I was, people and families come into our lives who make changes and help us to become successful adults. I'm glad that people are speaking out against the abuse because the world should know! In Sheila's case, she had a family! That's what is so wrong about it! Likewise, most unwed mums want to keep their children, but are forced to give them up by their families and the states--only to be abused later--especially if you are a child of color! The whole system is not built for the good intention of children, but to punish the unwanted children on this earth for being born.

Unfortunately, this story is similar for millions of children in Australia, the US and many other countries. I just don't understand why and how people could create such an immoral system and mostly get away with it. The amount of hate in your heart to do this to someone. Or the lack of any feeling at all...

The stories are many about the cruelty of these Catholics. It's a shame yet they call themselves Christians.

I cant believe we don't have a national holiday in memory of all wrong that has happened to the Aboriginal people.

As for the 37 dislikes you are part of the reason