HODL
· 4w
There are three groups that people who had bad childhoods belong to.
I’ve learned over the years that a bad childhood is a specific thing. It’s not being poor, or living in chaos or even necessar...
I used to subscribe to the idea that everyone has a traumatic childhood, since trauma is scalable person to person. The worst thing that’s ever happened to you may seem trivial compared to the worst thing that’s happened to someone else, but it’s still the worst thing that’s ever happened to you.
Harder to subscribe to it now that I have kids who I’m actively trying to provide a happy life to, but I still kinda think it’s true