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reb569 · Oct 01, 2017, 04:08 AM

I don't have complete memories of abuse prior to age 5 or 6, but I have a lot of fragmented memories that I am not sure where or when they came from.

Possible trigger:

In kindergarten, during a show-and-tell in the classroom, we had already gone around the circle, with everyone taking part, except for me. The teacher was irritated with me because when it had been my turn I had nothing to show or say, so she came back to me and asked me again. She chastised me for not being prepared. So I looked up at her, looked her right in the eye and said, "My daddy beat up my mommy last night." She (the teacher) got flustered, my classmates looked at me like I had a horn growing out of the middle of my forehead. This was the day I realized my family was not normal.

I do believe that babies who are raised in abusive environments are impacted by that abuse for sure. They might not remember it, but it impacts them through being hard to console, showing anxiety. So many ways.