I think that's a really good question.

I used to feel the same way, but then I really started thinking about my childhood and I was surprised that it was more "off" than I had originally thought it was. It is so hard to trust your memory when you had nothing to compare it to at the time, and just sort of figured everything was "fine". Or in my case you were taught to say it was fine and not talk about your feelings. If you say it's fine often enough, it seems fine.

It's really hard for me to draw the line between "oh, it was fine and I'm blowing it out of proportion now" and "Crap, that's mighty weird-sounding, why didn't I view it this way before???" I am struggling with that quite a bit these days.

I also don't remember a lot of my childhood. I would have said it was happy though. I don't know why. Maybe because we all said everything was FINE, even when it wasn't. That sticks with you I guess. Things are popping up more and more lately though. It's bizarre.