Well, I don’t mean it doesn’t matter, of course it does, but if you show them that they’re getting to you they’ll carry on. Pretend you don’t care, and they’ll stop, they’ll realise it’s not actually a big deal, and then we’ll work on getting you to feel the same way.”
“It’s not that easy,” Ben protested.
“Says who? You won’t know till you try. Try it today, if anyone says anything to you just ignore it, or say something which shows you don’t care. No one actually cares that you wet the bed, they’ve just found your weakness and are using it. They could just as easily be doing the same to me about, I dunno, if they found out I’m going bald or something.”
“They wouldn’t say it to you, they were calling me bedwetting Ben before they even knew I really wet the bed.”
