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24 Feb 2011, 1:23 am

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The preschool I attended labelled me as "mentally ret*d" because they tried to get me to write with my right hand, instead i wrote my name backwards. They seemed to think that my parents were doing something wrong in raising me because of my peculiarities, and i lost count of how many times the Child Protective agency showed up at my door because of something stupid i wound up doing that the preschool encouraged. I had Echolalea(i dont know how thats spelled) and the school knew that, so when the school questioned me as to why i got hurt doing one of my clumsy activities, the first thing they would ask me was not "how did this happen?" but "who saved you?" i would repeat the phrase "mommy did it" well into the questioning.
I was the prime target of the students pranks in elementary and middle school, and fourth grade was the worst. I had a real jerk for a teacher who regularly labelled me "compulsive liar" "lazy" and one time had the balls to call me "fat pig" in front of the entire class. This same teacher once singled out another girl in my class for punishment because she was being friendly with me. I once missed a doctors appointment because the jerk assigned me to do detention that day.
In high school, kids would throw things at me during lunch, their favorite item was actually their spare change, because it was light yet heavy enough to cause pain when it hit me. One underclassmen sexually harassed me and called me "ugly fat b***h" on a regular basis. another one threw gum in my hair and mooned me on the school bus.
To top it off, my paternal grandparents had it out for my dad and my mom. They would regularly call the police or the child protective agency on us because of lies that they told. They especially had it out for my younger sisters. One time my cousins physically attacked my second-youngest sister, and my third youngest sister stood up for her. My sister got suspended, but my cousins got nothing.


This has some particular echos of my experience with childhood :D


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25 Feb 2011, 11:03 am

Mandatory schooling.



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25 Feb 2011, 11:52 am

Suicidal ideation severe depression starting from the age of 8
being hyper-religious and terrified of going to hell (or drying in my sleep and then going to hell)
being sent to my grandparents house for half the summer to be abused by two of my older, male cousins
Nobody doing anything about the above
School work being too easy and most of the teacher's attention going on the misbehaving kids
being a bit chubby
starting puberty before everyone else
really failing to be feminine, despite the above
quite horrendous bullying that I don't want to go into



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25 Feb 2011, 12:00 pm

School
Home
Feeling like crap all the time
Anything that wasn't reading


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26 Feb 2011, 7:02 pm

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Mom and dad fighting almost every night. Mom going on a rampage for the smallest things, after that she was mad the rest of the day/night. Not being able to trust your family members if you wanted to tell them something secret as they would either tell each other and then ask me about it in front of everyone, or mom calling her friends and talking on the phone for two hours or more and somehow whatever I did wrong that day/week would get brought up. Trying to help out/fix things but ending up making a bigger mess and get yelled it for it.

I guess this is where my anger issues come from. :?


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26 Feb 2011, 9:51 pm

0-3: staring out the window waiting for my nurse mother to return home after working all night, only to see her go to bed and only get up to go back to work. Dad was the sweetest stay at home dad ever, though.
3: first attempt at kindergarten: i defecated in the middle of the class because the teacher specifically said "noone goes to the bathroom without me!" and well, she never had to go.
back at home ....
6-12: school, bullying, lack of remote corners in some of the school i went to, preventing me from hiding and reading.At home everything was all good, hippie father still staying at home taking care of me and my sister.
Then my parents divorced.
12-18: Psycho step father trying to drive us crazy with ever changing rules, very strict but never the same, often opposite, always abusive. Mother started drinking, and we were sleep deprived, getting awoken at 3 or 4 am to "do the washing up" if we hadn't waited until they were done eating to go to bed. (they never finished "eating" , since the end of their dinner was 15 servings of rum.) Had to run away and share a squat with 4 boys so i could graduate.
Thank god there is an end to childhood. I'd never go back to that.


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