Was your life at a younger age hard or did you through hardships?
Like trauma or violence or domestic abuse and things like that

did it affect you later in life?

Yeah, it affects me every day. Kinda ruined my life. Don’t wanna talk about it tho. But wish I could send a message to my younger self to change some things.

I mean I didn't have to eat out the garbage to survive or anything like that so others had it worse

I just got the classic white suburban special of parents who should have gotten divorced screaming at each other every day while "staying together for the kids," basically blaming me for being miserable

F***ing trash, I feel like I'm repeating the cycle any time I argue with my wife and my kid is around

Really difficult cant lie Im still tryna heal from the trauma lots of good moments too tho

Everyone has some type of trauma from childhood. Affects some more than others.

Life was very hard 😔

Yeah but I'm out here still though

Was s***, I hated every part of my childhood. Felt like a fever dream.

Being an adult is 10x better. Nobody can physically or mentally hurt me anymore.

I feel like I have a voice & that I’m in control.

No, it was really nice

It wasn't so bad aside from one or two bullies. We ain't really starve except for '08.

Pops was an opioid addict. Beforehand he used to be a drunk a******. Told me to pick which belt he would beat my ass with.

My parents didn’t know s*** about finances. Mom is still paying off her mortgage 20 years after with the same balance as they started with.

Graduated with a degree in Economics. Now a financial advisor.

same plus a lil domestic violence; def gave me a lil ptsd seeing that dynamic

my dad died when i was 6, but my mom was able to hold it down so we got through it and it didn’t kill my childhood one way or another

yeah my family is plagued with addiction issues

it's affected me to some extent, but a bit in a different way than most would think. soon as i got away from them my happiness improved dramatically. but these days, i don't really like being around people most of the time or trust pretty much anyone these days lately i've been thinking it's because of how my family brought me up

data collection

yea

Nothing in terms of abuse or missing meals but I was not socialised well at all or put in any extra curricular activities. Left to my own devices a lot or with people who I had a language barrier with

I also spoke of mental health issues when I was 10 and got shut down immediately so I just bottled everything up after that.

Parts of it were really bad. But I was happy.

Yea once I got into high school it got better

yes
my parents used to fight constantly and i was in a 24/7 state of anxiety for years
which has led to the f*** up i am tofay

Not anything I would share publicly but yeah it was rough