"It was what she wanted to hear," she says. She wanted to believe that the clever child wasn't a bad child, just an easily led one." More recently Victoria has been getting help to manage her impulses. But she has also been finding support, perhaps rather strangely, from others like her.Victoria's train of thought is interrupted when a thick, orange, swishy cat tail suddenly pops up on the video call and gently tickles her cheek. "His name is Gibberish," she says, reaching to pet a body that is out of frame on the table. Is that his real name?
