My mention of learning disability was not insinuating you had that challenge. It was my older brother and a psychiatrist told my parents to use very strong discipline and no cuddling or bathing him. So my father took him out to the back shed and hit him with a belt and told him if he cried he would get hit harder. Then I witnessed him picked on every day on the bus and teachers were mean to him.

I was always stressed and traumatized daily from what I witnessed. Not only did my parents fail him but the psychiatrist failed him.

The treatment you describe experiencing was extreme abuse, horrific. Your parents were evil human beings.