I seem to remember getting bitten really, really hard when I was a baby. I wonder if something like that could like cause problems later in life. I seem to have a real terror about it now, though I have asked the person who I thought bit me about it. I’m hoping that might help.
when I was maybe 6 years old, I told my mom to bite me and she was drunk so she did. I haven’t had any trauma from it. but I can see how it could be troubling.
At 7 I was bit on the ass by a pitbull to the point of scars…he clamped down and his jaw locked…I still love animals despite being mauled twice as a kid…so idk if it had any real lasting effects…
My cousins would bite me and I would bite them back when we were really young. I’m the only one of the bunch to be diagnosed as nutz, so I doubt being ‘chomped’ is an indicator of anything other than having sported a bite mark at some point.
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I’ve been bitten a whole bunch of times at work (behavior therapy) and it is painful, but not very traumatic. I’m still missing a chunk of ankle from the kid who had porcelain teeth. Man, was that ever unpleasant!
That kid is lucky he didn’t bite me or he’d be missing those choppers. Porcelain teeth? Did one of his parents date a toilet?
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All his teeth rotted before he came to the facility. He was extremely malnourished and underweight due to the fact that he would only eat hot dogs and blue Gatorade. He was sixteen years old and 73 pounds. Poor guy had to be put on the most extreme diet intervention program I have ever seen, but after about six months he was back to a healthy weight and he could eat ten different foods. If that wasn’t successful, our next step would have been giving him a feeding tube.
We had to wrap his wrists in hockey tape, because he would bite himself just as hard. The entire length of his arms were covered in scar tissue, from armpit to fingertips. Trust me, you wouldn’t have hit him back.
I got bit by a dog whe I was really young, no lasting emotional issues, can still see the scar though.
My aunt used to work with Mentally Ill teens and got bit & knocked around quite a a lot(she was a tiny woman).
She always said the worst thing about being bitten was the prophylactic meds they give you. She said this while missing a chunk of her forearm. Toughness & Kindest person I’ve ever known.
It’s not that bad. Just a TdAP shot and some antibiotics. The bite is definitely worse, but now I have all these cool scars. Chicks dig scars 
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This was a while ago, she has passed. I know strong antibiotics made her feel sick.
I’m sorry. She sounds like a kickass woman.
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I think it may have been an older sibling who bit me, or actually half sibling as I just found out recently.
Anyway, I am pretty sure I had a trauma about something, my guess is, getting bitten may have been part of it. I emailed my half sibling and asked about it but they haven’t replied yet, which isn’t that unusual. I feel better about it anyway.
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My cousins would bite me and I would bite them back when we were really young.
I think an older half sibling may have got me by surprise in that area when we are so young that they say we don’t remember but actually do. If we don’t remember when we are really young, why would anyone even bother talking to us at all, or teaching us anything?
I remember bits and pieces here and there. The traumatic stuff I remember VERY well. Remembering to shower I do sporadically, if at all.
I was bitten by a donkey at the petting zoo donkey ride. My mom was more upset than I was, I never went back.
Donkeys are assholes…I’ve never met a nice one…I don’t understand why their used around children…
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That’s racist! I’m sure there are plenty of nice donkeys.
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Maybe you have some things that scared you that you don’t touch. I think that’s what was happening to me. I might have tried to do something then I wouldn’t do it because I didn’t think Scary Person would want that maybe. And I maybe I would just ‘bounce off’ because I couldn’t rationalize and objectively look at what happened. Now, I don’t care so much if Scary Person wants that, because as an adult they have a reputation to uphold, maybe, and if I actually bring up what may have happened then they will be the one who 'bounces off so to speak. I do feel better having sent an email about it to them. I think sometimes if I am the one who ‘bounces off’ I am the one who gets accused of not doing my part.
Try not to hold it too much against him. My brother did some truly terrifying things to my siblings and I, but as a child, he had an undeveloped sense of right and wrong. Your brother had the same problem. Children do not develop empathy until around age 7-9 on average. Kids can traumatize each other without meaning to. If he has grown up into a good person, try to focus on that instead of actions he took when he didn’t know any better. I have forgiven my brother and now we have an okay relationship.