isn’t it weird how you can just grow up without a single person caring about you or looking out for you and with extra brutalizing on the side and you’re still alive and almost completely coherent but in so much pain and bursting with paranoia and insecurity and self doubt while all the people who did this to you are just. business as regular. where is the karma.

The older I get, the more I realize how absolutely awful it was to be treated the way I was when I was a teenager by my family. I used to think it was normal and/or the best someone could do but no. It's actually incredibly easy to provide support, love, respect, care, and safety to teenagers.

the hostile atmosphere when you're feeling good about something but none of your family members think you deserve to feel good

me: Hey, Dad, will you help me with this?

Dad: Sure. *immediately leaves the room and doesn't come back*

everyone: ask for help when you need it! don't try to get through everything on your own when it's too much!

me: asks for help, is immediately rejected and scorned for asking, feels worse

actually fucking insane I have to beg for basic human things like attention and communication from my family. these people are insane

I think I just expected that someday someone would come along who was like me and because they were like me they would care about what I was hiding and dig it out of me with a blunt instrument but that person has never come and they never will and instead of mourning that I should just turn the blunt instrument onto myself and show what I find to others 

To add; "They left out that children aren’t your purpose in life. They shouldn’t give your life meaning. That’s something you should have already had."

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It wasn't your fault. You were a kid. No matter what a kid does or sais, they deserve to be safe. Respected. Protected. You didn't deserve it and the adults around you were responsible for your wellbeing. No matter how difficult you were, you deserved the best. So when you work through your traumas, don't let guilt be a part of it. Again: A child is not responsible.

Me, desperately at every adult old enough to be my parents in my life: please adopt me

sorry if i ever act weird i was raised by an insane woman who hates me

Me as a teenager: I really relate to victims of child abuse. Weird, given my parents are amazing.

Me now: oh.

things my parents shouldn't have been entrusted with: Children

Things my parents unfortunately had a lot of: Children

Me, desperate: I need help now please

Everyone I know, for some reason: yeah not going to work for me. How bout you break down tomorrow instead?

abusive parents will be like “I wouldn’t want something bad to happen to my child"and then go and be the worst thing that ever happened to a child

my gosh I cannot stand people who cut off mid-conversation in a serious conversation because they don't want to talk to you anymore BUT THEY DO NOT COMMUNICATE THEY ARE OVERWHELMED. I would back off! I would shut up! Just PLEASE COMMUNICATE WITH ME WTF

I was a child and you were supposed to make me feel like I'm lovable you stupid idiots