Those of you who grew up with abusive parents, did you know, at the time, that their behavior was actually "abusive"? Like, with that label?
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My parents were _great_! But I only realized that after I learned what my Mrs' parents had done to her.
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Not until much, much later, but I was an introvert and didn't get much of a chance to talk about it with anyone.
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It took less time, fortunately, to figure out that wanting to die was not supposed to be normsl.
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I had no idea until recently. I knew things weren't "right" necessarily, but kept thinking "other people have it worse."
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I just figured every kid got their ass whooped as much as I did.
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