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Originally Posted by emmamental
I'm not sure if my trauma was valid - when i lived at home (ages 14-16)- my father hit me a couple of times and my parents were always shouting. But some of my childhood was good. But then my mum committed suicide when i was 20.
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When I was a child, my parents let me have a kitten. Then they made me kill it. Just because it was nice while I had the kitten, doesn't mean it wasn't traumatic as **** when my father took me into the woods and made me shove it down a pipe to its death, nor does it mean that I wasn't conditioned to be so terrified of him that I didn't argue and just did as I was ordered. The nice part about having a kitten for a little while doesn't negate the rest of the story. Just because some parts of your childhood were good, doesn't negate the rest.