My family was nuts at the same time families are usually nuts. I have seen both better and much worse families. I always thought my family was quite alright. There were some stuff that they did that I found really bothersome, like they seemed so socially anxious, my parents, that they rather strangers felt good about us than the kids feeling good. The other thing was since they were like this they tried to pressure me to be more normal. But I knew this even back then so it never created a situation where I wondered what was weird about my family. I fought it back then and now I am an adult so that battle is over with.

I have a sibling that thought our family was really destructive but they saw the bad and I saw the good. They wanted perfect, I settled with human. Most families have faults.

I feel like I grew up fairly normal. I don't feel at all that my issues in life are because of my family. I feel I was born this way. The sibling on the other side that feels it was a bad family grew up without MI and very successful. LOL.