I Don't Want to Talk About It

<p><em>I Don't Want to Talk About It </em>takes readers on a mother-and-son journey across the rocky terrain of child sexual abuse homophobia and living and dying with HIV/AIDS.</p><p>The direction of Tony Carden's short life was determined by two pandemics: child sexual abuse and HIV/AIDS. Unlike the compassion shared with victims of today's COVID 19 pandemic vilification was the burden borne by those who contracted HIV/AIDS and silence the lot of sufferers of child sexual abuse. On both occasions Tony's response to his anxious mother was: 'I don't want to talk about it.'</p>