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[-] Meow@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 5 days ago

I've told my own parents that, almost word for word, especially with my mom, who was thrown out of a moving car by one of her parents in childhood, and it's stuff like that that reminds me, for all the pain I had in my own childhood, they did an amazing job at not being like their own parents, and doing what little they know how to do to deal with a broken child carrying a horrible trauma nobody at the time knew about, the ways Capitalism, and the tools they use against us, such as religion under Capitalism, torture, kill and under-develop us (and SA, but that is a difficult topic for me) are many in variation and intensity.

[-] Maeve@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 5 days ago

I'm really glad for the good for you and sorry for the bad. The SA stuff is difficult for me, too. The parent I mentioned still rages at their dead abusers, while not being able to acknowledge they regularly left me with their abusers for weeks at a time and got exasperated that I'd call at bedtime, in inconsolable tears, begging to come home. Decades later, I still can't recall what came after; and I don't really need to recall, anymore. I already know it was nothing good. But I can forgive that parent that because what that does to a child in their earliest years, until they married and moved out of the house, especially after losing a parent they adored to a sudden death -- that ain't nothin good, either, and psychotherapy back then was not only stigmatized, but more out of reach for the dirt poor, as well. And that's why parents did that, especially when there weren't opportunities for women "past their prime," with four or five hungry mouths to feed. Babies' mouths.

[-] Meow@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 5 days ago

I'm fortunate enough to have therapy covered by medicaid/medicare (I have both, I forget which one covers it), but on that topic I need to cut the conversation here, I feel uncomfortably close to bringing up something that I'm only prepared to bring up during therapy, where I can use EMDR to process what comes up, thank you for sharing, but also let's leave it here.

[-] Maeve@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 5 days ago

I'm sorry, I didn't mean to trigger anything. I wish you the best.

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