>>16939058>Anyone else get beat as a kid?Let me be the one to say:
I'm sorry your caregivers struck you;
you didn't deserve it,
you didn't know better,
it taught you nothing but to fear.
It is that memory which you drown out with addiction and escapism.
It is that memory which still haunts you, in the background of every decision you are faced with.
Your inability to negotiate your needs with others lies in that moment.
Even your future sickness and early death lies in that moment.
You didn't deserve that moment.