I’m seriously beginning to think that a lot of people honestly assume that “childhood trauma” is something that only affects children, rather than both children and adults who were traumatized back when they used to be children.
This is the kinda shit that ruins every attempt I make at taking a hiatus, like, I witnessed the galaxy brain take of someone saying, “I can buy people still suffering from childhood trauma when they’re 16, but if you’re in your early 20s, you can only use that as an excuse for so long”, and by “excuse” they literally just meant, like, an excuse for being sad and fucked up by the fact that your parents beat you or something.
Like, imagine sitting a kid down after they’ve been through some horrible, soul-shrivening shit and telling them “Well, you’re 10 now, so you’ve got about 8 years to figure out the many complicated and emotionally draining feelings you’re experiencing right now, cause once that big 18 rolls around, you need to grow the fuck up and get over it!”
And I fucking say this like this isn’t essentially the exact sort of message I was bombarded with as a kid for years until it eventually turned into “You really should be over this by now.” or the more nefarious and to-the-point “I think you might be some kinda fucked up weirdo because you’re so obsessed with your own childhood.”
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