2. “My sibling and I were very much used as pawns, largely by our father. We were even dragged into court one day and missed school because our father wanted us to testify that our mother was a bad parent. It set me up for a string of abusive and unhealthy relationships as I went through school, and discovered my true self wasn’t just a mask to keep me safe.”
“I’m currently in therapy trying to sort through my heavy dissociative issues — I was so out of it, I didn’t even realize I had them until a year ago. I feel like a 40-year-old in a disabled 24-year-old’s body. I can’t even function well enough to hold a job.
The main lesson I’ve learned is that even though they’re the ones who brought me into this world, my parents were not fit to be parents. Truth be told, I’d much rather have never been born than have to deal with all this garbage these terrible human beings have left me with.”
