what things (not sensory) severely upset you as a child?

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Kids leaving swings and roundabouts when they left them moving. I would have to stop them before I was happy. Health and safety from a young age!
Hated baloons popping or loud sudden bangs such as fireworks. Usual stuff.
People shouting/argueing.

Dangerous and overwhelming stuff couldn't upset me. It even excites me. It gives me 'excuses'.

Yet some mundane and even wholesome stuff DO upset me. And there's a lot of that.

In some way, I might be possessed. Or something really messed up since aged 5 or so.

There's just no reason why I ever unless there's really something I couldn't able to remember.

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I remember being in grade school around second grade and being shown a presentation on fires. There were slides of actual burned bodies of adults and children from house fires. Some survived, others did not. The one that bothered me the most was a 6 year old girl who burned to death in her bedroom. The picture blocked out her eyes, but you could tell that she died screaming under her bed. I could visualize the process over and over in my head. The bed frame melted on top of her. It was really horrible presentation to watch. It gave me nightmares for six months strait. My parents were mad at the school for showing that to me. They were not alone. The school had to formally apologize to each of the students shown the presentation.

It no longer bothers me as much to see a severe burn. I handle accidents in the lab too much I guess.

Most of them are trauma related. The thing that upset me the most was never being allowed to do sports, any extracurricular activities, play outside, go to other kids houses or visit extended family, have someone give a s**t about my education, etc. because my parents were "too burned out" from my older siblings and them doing that s**t. Basically being needlessly stifled regarding every normal activity a child does, all out of pure laziness and selfishness.

Trauma.

Time and hearing clocks tick (not sensory but fear).

When the witch lady took Toto in her bicycle basket.

Whenever my dad was late coming home from work I thought he was dead.

The idea of getting married - my husband might die and I wouldn't know what to do with his body.

I could hardly sit through many '80s era sitcoms because of how often the plots were being driven by people doing clearly stupid things. I knew they were going to end badly, and it was deeply upsetting to the point where I'd struggle to sit through it at all and the payback was rarely worth it.