• over_clox@lemmy.world
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    27 days ago

    Read my other comment.

    I heard my parents going at it and thought my dad was beating my mom. He almost got a baseball bat to his head.

    Yeah, when you don’t know what they’re actually doing, hearing them have sex can sound like dad beating mom, and I almost went to defend my mom.

    For an ignorant child, hearing that activity can indeed be traumatic enough to make a kid want to defend their mom…

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        27 days ago

        Nope. Child neglect, they neglected to teach me such things. Parents, school, friends, neighbors, all neglected to explain anything to me.

        Hell, they didn’t even teach me that girls had different parts. I almost got expelled from school at age 7 because I walked into the wrong restroom. The school treated me like I was a pervert, when actually I was completely ignorant and innocent.

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          27 days ago

          Bro where were you going to school that they were gonna expel you just for going into the wrong restroom as a SEVEN year old? I seriously doubt so much of this convo

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            27 days ago

            I have no reason to lie, the school treated me like shit because I was an awkward kid, they thought I did it on purpose.

            They also treated me like shit for failing their eye exam at age 7, which turned out to be the entire reason I was so awkward.

            You know that big E on the top of the chart? Yeah, when they asked me to read the vision chart, I literally asked them “What chart, where?”

            Rather than treat the situation seriously and inform my parents I was effectively blind and needed to get glasses ASAP, they accused me of ‘acting out’ because according to them I refused to read the chart.

            Like fucking hell, I couldn’t even see the damn chart!

            Yes, having 20/400 vision absolutely sucks!

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        27 days ago

        Yes, I read that part.

        Years later I had a good talk with my parents to respectfully ask them why they never explained those things to me.

        Their answer? They were waiting for me to ask them where babies came from.

        By age 10, I had never even seen a baby before, so the question never crossed my mind.