Discovering Truths as an Adult (e.g. Andrea Yeats was a tragedy)
Are there any media or historical stories that you framed as one way in your mind as a youth, and came to find it as an adult was totally different? For example, I remember it being such a shocking news story that Andrea Yates had killed her own 5 children. I just remember her being framed as an evil monster, an example of a type of seriel killer essentially. Recently, I was listening to a podcast and it turns out that this woman is really a victim in a lot of ways. She had major psychosis after pregnancy, and was forced to keep popping out babies by her religious husband. She was institutionalized for periods of time, due to hallucinations and thoughts about murdering her kids. She shouldn't have been released, and when she was, she wasn't supposed to be alone with her kids. Her husband thought she just needed to get over everything and purposefully left her alone with the kids for periods of time to get her to "bounce back" into motherhood. She snapped and killed them all. On top of all that, the justice system totally failed her during her first trial.