There were parts of the world I hated as a child, but there were a few places I thought were safe too. I often took abuse from my older siblings, who would never treat me equally, always treated me like I was a big joke to the point where I finally decided I'd had enough, so I isolated myself from them and spent as much time alone as possible.
Parents later insisted my sister and I go to the same school, and she would get her friends to pick on me, which my parents never believed because they thought that girls were little angels who never did anything bad or wrong.
The next thing that went wrong was my older brother got my parents obsessed with the idea of me swimming, something I'd refused to do in the past, so they then forced me into the pool every time my sister went, which she used to her advantage to stop me from doing what I liked to do. My parents insisted all of my problems would go away if I would stop being interested in anything else and swim 7 days a week, get suntanned, build huge muscles, and have swimming parties. One summer, they took every activity I liked to do away from me and only allowed me to sit around and wait to be told by my sister it was time to go swimming since according to them it would "build me up to where I would be a human being."
Junior High and High School was where my hatred of the world expanded even more. Constant tormenting and being blamed for it by my parents who insisted it was my fault. The forced socialization with my sister I had to go through in college didn't help me either, since my parents often threatened to institutionalize me if I didn't always go out everywhere she wanted me to go, like to the mall, football games, parties, and just about everywhere else because she felt it was demeaning to her to go anywhere by herself, since my parents insisted if I stayed in the house too much, I'd become "warped" and unable to do anything for myself and the only way to prevent that from happening was to go out places with my sister because only the activities she did would prevent me from warping, not activities outside of the house that I liked to do.
Since getting away from my family, I've searched for better places in the world and have occasionally, but not often, found them.
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PrisonerSix
"I am not a number, I am a free man!"