I'm totally in category 2.

On one ocassion I was mad by the fact that something from the past was bring out current anger. I actually told my T that I should be able to handle it and it shouldn't be effecting me. Her exact response was "I have no idea who told you that". I guess this probably came from the we don't talk about bad stuff mentality of my family growing up.

I think some of being in category 2 comes from the fact that what happened in our childhood seemed normal to us because we didn't know any different. Thus we don't actually feel what we went through was that bad. Therefore there shouldn't be a current day effect. We survived that crap so we should be able to deal with anything. That's just my two cents.