SkyscraperMeow
When you grow up in a meat grinder, the gnashing gears etcetera just become part of the wallpaper. You don't even notice them. You adapt, you make conversation about the weather. Maybe you take up yoga and crying in the rain.

Yeah. Thats how it is. Being treated badly is your 'normal'.

I couldn't label my experience as 'abuse' I mean, I wasn't beaten or whipped with a belt. I was 'just' ignored, unloved, ridiculed, neglected, and, people have it so much worse than I do.
Now, I call it abuse. Neglect is abuse.