Poll: Did you truly feel part of a family growing up?

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I felt I was in a family, but not part of it, while growing up. My family growing up, was a bit dysfunctional.

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I grew up with great emotional support and a great family. Didn’t have much money but that stuff doesn’t really matter anyways. I had a good childhood even with that paranoia that increased with age.

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I grew up in an abusive, alcoholic home. Sigh. That said, we all knew (I have a brother and a sister) our parents loved us and we loved each other. I was definitely part of a family growing up.

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I knew I was part of a family, I just also knew that it wasn’t a very good family.

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That is a great way of asking that question. No, I felt like a stranger in my own family. My brother was emotionally abusive and invalidated every interest I had. My mom and dad used me like a servant all the saying I had a servant’s heart. I also had a traumatic brain injury that completely altered me as a person socially and educationally that my parents didn’t provide enough support for. I should’ve been in therapy for depression/social anxiety in my late pre-teens and early teenage years. My mental health gradually got worse worse until I experienced psychotic depression as a young adult and now my p-doc has said I have schizophrenia.

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My dad was a bit of a cruel ahole sometimes like when i said get out of my room when angry at him he would say this is not your room you are just a tenant here. That was a pretty fd up thing to say to a 12 year old kid but thats what he was like

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Answer 1. I came up in an abusive alcoholic family. Emotional (and some physical) at all times.

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my awnser is no… no family tried to kill me then dumped me onto the street at age 15 and walked away hoping I would be dead soon after…

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