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I grew up believing my own abuse was normal and that it was my fault I wasn’t good enough. By the standards of my community, it wasn’t abusive at all. (Spare th
by kayodelycaon 5y ago
I grew up believing my own abuse was normal and that it was my fault I wasn’t good enough. By the standards of my community, it wasn’t abusive at all. (Spare the rod, spoil the child.)
It fucked me up for a very long time.
It wasn’t until I was 34 and 18 months into treatment for bipolar disorder that I discovered where so much of my self-hatred came from.
No one around me knew how damaged I was because I had to hide it to survive.
- mlindner 5y agoSome people classify "spanking" as abuse however which we need to be clear about.
- kayodelycaon 5y agoI apologize for being misleading. It was a significant amount of emotional abuse, not so much physical. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_abuse https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_abuse