What is your childhood memory that u thought was normal but realized it was traumatic in your life?

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@victoriae5328 Ай бұрын

The monster in the closet. I thought everyone grew up with an actual monster in their closet. After years of therapy, and still, some PTSD-related restless nights because of such trauma. I've learned, no actually, most children don't have an actual monster living in their closet. He still walks free to this day

@jenscheese4510 Ай бұрын

💝💝💝

@MeanGinia9607 2 ай бұрын

My dad hitting my mom. I never knew that wasn't normal until my BFs dad punched a hole in a wall. She told me that her daddy never touched anyone when he was mad but sometimes he'd hit the wall. No matter how mad her dad was, she was never scared of him.

@abbywolf9701 Ай бұрын

I mean… punching walls is also poor anger management

@innocento.1552 Ай бұрын

Is therapy free in all countries? Everyone online seems to be the white knight with all the perfect solutions, but never accounting for the cost.

@lunariian Ай бұрын

Not really traumatic but in 2nd grade we had a lady come to talk to us about alcohol. She asked us if anyone knew anything about alcohol and I raised my hand and said "I like it when my dad drinks because he gives me a bunch of change and tells me if I can count it right I can have it." I only remember because she had this awkward quiet reaction and just moved on 😆 my dad's been sober over 20 years now but that still makes me laugh

@adelerodriguez2432 Ай бұрын

I'm surprised they didn't call CPS.

@lunariian Ай бұрын

@@adelerodriguez2432 I swear. 😂 My best friend and I were looking at her old school photos and in one of her middle school photos she had hand shaped bruises on both arms. She asked her mom about it and she was like oh your crazy aunt Cindy was staying with us before she went back to the mental hospital. She grabbed you by the arms the night before while you were sleeping and started shaking you. Why her parents sent her to school in short sleeves for picture day and why the school never said anything we'll never know.

@lirastolons4951 Ай бұрын

So many of these are making me cry but number 45 made me feel happy that there was a little light in some kids lives that otherwise wouldn’t have any.

@jasondouglas152 Ай бұрын

I had my 1st anxiety attack in 4th grade at a dinosaur bone park. I put my head inside a wolly mammoth skull then immediately realized id die one day. Ill never forget. I still have daily attacks

@randomcrap4230 Ай бұрын

I thought everyone's parents had gun fights with each other in the next room when their kids were trying to sleep. Nope, that was mostly just mine. 😂 I remember always imagining TV moms screaming and flipping out and calling them names and saying really mean, abusive things to their kids when the cameras stopped rolling and that that was just a normal part of childhood that happens to everyone once there werent any witnesses around, like there was a "in front of others" life (the actual tv show) and the "only us" life behind closed doors, since that was how my life was.

@LeeLeesBanter 26 күн бұрын

I think we may be related😂 I grew up in a time when most of the men were messed-up from Vietnam and they loved playing with their guns, playing quick draw ❤

@randomcrap4230 12 күн бұрын

@@LeeLeesBanter it was my mom that always pulled weapons and flipped out. Maybe we were just neighbors 😂

@LeeLeesBanter 12 күн бұрын

@@randomcrap4230 😂🥰

@TheGodros Ай бұрын

20:32, aphantasia is the word they wanted. aphasia is more about speech difficulties

@bethsneed3637 Ай бұрын

Depression hit me around 5th grade. I figured after hearing stories from others about their teen angst I just had a severe case where I wanted to off myself all the time. Not until I hit my 20s and on did I realize exactly how severe it is. Now in my 40s and still dealing with it.

@jenscheese4510 Ай бұрын

💞💞💞💞me too

@randomcrap4230 Ай бұрын

Same. I thought about unaliving every single day from 9th grade on. I remember talking to older coworkers at my first job about how I had just gotten a lava lamp and I love it so much because I can just watch it for hours before going to sleep and it was so good at helping me stop crying long enough to fall asleep and them just looking at me awkwardly and my mom (who also worked at the same place) just chuckling and dismissively saying "haha...teen angst" like it was a joke. I thought everyone cried for 2 hours before falling asleep at night.

@jogee2382 Ай бұрын

This isn't traumatic (for me) but when I was at secondary school about age 12 (give or take) I would hear other girls age about 13 maybe 14 talking about sleeping with or having 25 year old boyfriends. I wasn't the most worldly child but I thought this was really strange so I told my Mom about what I had been told/heard and my Mom assured me those girls were just 'saying things' and making it up to sound big and clever and I accepted this as, of course, why on Earth would a grown man want to date a school girl? It's only now I'm older and I look back I do wonder if those poor girls were telling the truth and they had been groomed and they were in fact in an awful situation where they were being taken advantage of 😟

@kirra6384 26 күн бұрын

I have too many stories to count, as a kid I thought it was normal to be hungry all the time. My mom was poor and did do her best to get food, but i was always hungry and would eat stuff out of cans with my bare hands. When i was three years old i learned how to use a can opener on my own and have a scar on my thumb from it. She had a BF (he was actually a decent guy and helped make sure i got into foster care, his parents took me in) and he would sometimes need to go grab my mom, and he at least wouldn't leave me and my brother there alone, but he would wake me up, for whatever reason i sometimes slept nude, i was maybe 8 yrs old, and if i didn't get dressed fast enough he would drag me with him and i would be basically nude. I think i would maybe snag a blanket, but new mexico winters are pretty cold. Then my mom showed me some 'salt' that i was never allowed to touch because it would end me, but she would go use it and it confused me so much. Then she tried to get me and my brother to take sleeping pills to wake up with god (her actual words, her psychotic breaks always have something to do with religion, she convinced my youngest brother years later that he could see demons) and her BF showed up and clocked pretty quickly what was going on, which is why i think he's an alright guy. Went into foster care the next day, which had its own issues later on when i was passed to actual family and not the original foster family, it became a huge mess

@Polopony20. 17 күн бұрын

Getting yelled at/blamed when cards declined, same for when the truck stalled out. This led to getting yelled at when id call my dad to have him check the bank account (we had money, my mom was just very irresponsible with it so dad kept a limited amount in the checking account) or to come drive the truck home because my mom was throwing a fit over it (she swore she knew how to drive a manual. She did not.) Now i work retail and still get a surge of fear when i hear someone's card decline. I try to not make a big deal of it/act like its out machine. Especially if they have kids with them.

@Floordrobe3019 Ай бұрын

Where's story 1?

@CosmoCide24 2 ай бұрын

17:42 “despite my dad living closer, he insisted I make birdhouses every day after school” is birdhouses a code word for something? What does the distance the dad lives have anything to do with making birdhouses? This story is just stupid and nonsensical.

@muffinonlegs Ай бұрын

I was also confused by this. I rewound a bit thinking I'd missed something but nope

@niquecole653 Ай бұрын

His dad basically kept him busy so he wouldnt have to spend time with him

@Slamminization Ай бұрын

What’s the name of the video game that’s being played in the background? Looks familiar, but I can’t quite place it. 🤔

@TheTasteOfSalt Ай бұрын

It's called Forspoken

@sadeatthewhip1846 20 күн бұрын

37:43 That is disgusting what happened to that person and I hope that therapist lady went to prison and/or hell

@adyaparamitaputripratama2786 28 күн бұрын

Tbh, I feel like OP's mom (who left the dad for her first love) actually dodged a bullet ngl. but i wanna know, does the mom actually knows about some "things" about the dad that she may not tell the kids??