Hi Fmcconaughy, welcome to PC. I think that your mom is wrong. Childhood is for development and you spent a portion of your development living in terror. This WOULD affect you quite a bit. You can't just walk away from that. You need to process what happened to you and work on things in your development that this affected like self worth, boundaries, being able to meet your needs, express your feelings, etc. You must have lived in terror every single day during that time period.