@Darth Festivus 🎄 To be fair, my childhood wasn't that bad. Things didn't start getting really bad until my teens and my patents very clearly cared and did their best.
Nobody really knew much about neurodiversity in those days.
My parents had a very specific plan for my life, regardless of what I wanted. Any deviation from it was met with physical and mental abuse. So no matter how many skills I have right now or things I enjoy, still feel like a complete failure at times because I didn’t do the things my parents wanted me to do (become an engineering faculty at the most prestigious university in our country).
@me Oh yeah they did. They couldn’t just accept that I’m not as good as the rest and how can I not want to do it. They had no regards for my own desires
@Darth Festivus 🎄 I know a thing or two about not living up to parental expectations. Fortunately for me, mine weren't abusive and have always tried to be supportive.
That said, being told repeatedly about how you'll ruin your life if you don't graduate from school makes getting expelled (which is a whole story unto itself) pretty traumatic.
I had a complete mental breakdown and severe depression once I got into college but my parents pretended everything was alright because they were getting everything they ever wanted. I never made faculty, heck I barely passed my bachelor program (in a more logical setting I should’ve dropped out ages ago).
@secretsloth lol thank you! Being a parent myself and working with a therapist has helped me with a lot of it. But sometimes I still get maudlin when I think about others’ parents
I do too, I kinda just don't know what "normal" parenting might have felt like, and people with normal parents and normal in-laws (even the stereotypical semi combative in-law thing) just baffle me a bit. It feels like a lot of standard life experiences, weren't there for me, and it makes it hard to relate to a lot of folks (as though autism didn't make it hard enough already lol) ugh. I try to give my kid what I didn't have. 💜
At this point when someone autistic says they had a mental breakdown in college I assume it means they had autistic burnout unless there's evidence to the contrary.
(I'm pretty sure I got autistic burnout in college once and I'm starting to suspect it played a role in another incident, although other factors were definitely involved in that one.)
@farah > I had a complete mental breakdown and severe depression once I got into college
For me, last years of high school. Once before I left home. Again, much worse, about a year later, after moving to a different city and a school I'd chosen.
Everything was great at first, best 6 months of my life. Then came the seasonal black dog, and I started to struggle with *everything*. Hating myself, every day, for my weakness, for not coping with the emotional abyss opening up beneath me.
South Asian families have this toxic & unhealthy mixture, especially our parents', generation of clinging strongly to the traditions of the past regardless of how meaningful they may be today while similtaneously not wanting to be trapped in the poverty that many have been trapped in for generations. They somehow don't seem to think that those traditions were somewhat responsible for their poverty.
I don't know how prevalent casteism is in your community. It is extremely prevalent in the biological family I was born into. I have to take several deep breaths while typing this out as their awful energy pervades the room I am locked in and infects everything I read, listen to, and try to type out. They have nothing to offer the world but their fair-skin and their ignorance. Their labor is purchased only by the various brands of fair-skinned fascists around the world. I unfortunately happen to be dark-skinned. They are so ignorant and seem to believe so strongly that it were their extreme skill, talent, capability that got them to where they are, they can't seem to understand or connect with my suffering at all. Their delusion has left them severely underdeveloped mentally, emotionally, intellectually, and spiritually.
I was nearly dead in Singapura when we migrated out in 2005. The child abuse, sibling abuse, and abuse at the public schools had all but destroyed me – conveniently preserving the illusion of superiority of the Chinese Singaporeans, and the delusions of the fair-skinned casteists who were purchased as some advanced for. of slave. While I obtained admission into Computer Engineering, I knew something had gone wrong deeply. The casteists around me were and are still too inept and incompetent to be able to understand the truth. They celebrated at the offer letters as though I were going to an IIT, their only reference for any educational system. As casteists, they merely needed to practice subservience to the superiorized castes in order to achieve their illusion of success. I was actually trying to learn what it means to learn, understand what it means to understand. Such depth of approach towards knowledge for the purpose of participating meaningfully in the society around them means nothing to them, nor did it mean anything to the whites who were settled high upon a mountain range of genocides.
The doctors refused to treat all of the severe symptoms that had developed, many of them were casteists. They clearly expected and desired my death because that is what the Chinese and the whites desired. My demise would mean a lightening of their skintone, and thus increased proximity to white & Chinese fascists and greater wealth for continuing to practice casteism and little else.
I was depressed but that was a symptom of CSA and complete dehumanization by age 12. It wasn't treated until after I staged a peaceful, non-violent protest against the normalization of my dehumanization in November 2011. After the arrest, I experienced the worst suicidal experience in my life which prompted a visit to the ER and only then did they bother to treat my illnesses, but only those on the surface, which they themselves contributed to.
I left Computer Engineering after a few years. It was racist, colorist, casteist, and extremely skewed in terms of gender. It was a rapists' paradise. I had been continuing on in the Science faculty. After the arrest, the medication degraded my intellectual capabilities. While I could study somewhat, I could not thrive.
I left university without a degree. I attempted to educate myself, while also attempting to address my health myself. None of the jobs worked out because of unaddressed childhood trauma. Not working has allowed me to address the decades worth of unhealed wounds. I have not worked in nearly 4 years now. The casteist biofamily treats me as though I were already dead, they take all of the things I bought for myself without asking me and use it in their old house that they rent out on AirBNB. I don't see a cent of any of it, I have no idea what the family's finances are. They have treated me like a ‘kaamwala’ (a servant) and tried to train me for the role that someone from an inferiorized caste would have served in India.
I used to have nightmares about being trapped in primary school. Sometimes I would be a squirrel trying to climb away from the gates of the school. Sometimes I would be a small bird attempting to fly high enough to clear the walls of the school. It has taken a long time before I could even see the word Singapore without getting traumatized. I would experience trauma looking at the number plates of cars. There were so many forms of unaddressed, unhealed trauma that I was forced to live with in public that I can never look at my backwards, ignorant casteist biofamily ever again.
None of this should be a trauma dump. I have addressed my wounds, I am secure and safe. I value the health & wellbeing of others, even if we have never met in person. I am extremely grateful to be able to interact with anyone at all and not be strictly confined to the caste hovel/prison that the casteists, Zionists, Chinese and white fascsist consider as sufficient.
I can look back and discuss any part of it. It may not be pleasant for me or for anyone else, but it should no longer be traumatizing for anyone else who has addressed their own traumatic injuries. I certainly hope that this is the case.
I have processed my trauma, this is an extremely sad and disappointing story of a good, kind, and respectful child's best intentions getting thrown away because of the color of his skin. But it is also a story of victory, perserverance, struggle and peace. I required no violence at all to survive, recover, and heal.
I now believe that I was one of the targets of an advanced, modern genocide taking place in the supposedly developed countries of the world, specifically eugenics towards dark-skinned people.
I do not interact with the casteist biofamily anymore, even if I live in the same house as them, because they are merely a cesspool of mental, emotional, intellectual, and spiritual illnesses & diseases. They have not developed or matured internally beyond the age of 15. Their spirituality is merely ignorance, magical thinking, and trauma.
Healing from childhood trauma is so vital and important. Without this healing, we will never connect with our intact basic humanity as adults – prime targets to be played with as pets & toys by the fascists.
I highly recommend Patrick Teahan's Youtube channel, I have learned so much about the various forms of suffering I had been living with and was forced to normalize so that the casteists around me could have their convenient delusion reflected back at them.
@manas Thank you for sharing. I feel honored that you trusted me with your truth. I’m glad I met you here and without a doubt, a very good friend. Peace 💕
My parents were just perpetually disappointed in me. My dad especially when I wound up in jobs that didn't require a uniform. He wanted me in law enforcement or the military or even security...
The fact I made it as a professional writer which I wanted to be since I was 5 never counted for anything.
I wore a school uniform. They introduced a uniform because they figured it would blur the lines between the rich and the poor kids. Speaking as one of the latter it did not and I got picked on mercilessly because my clothes were cheap.
@Krampus Sponge: Fury Road Yeah, for me it was just about the decision paralysis that came from picking what to wear. I solve this now by keeping my clean clothing in a queue in the drawer.
At any rate, the bullies had plenty of other things to pick on me for. I didn't fit into the mainstream education system very well.
I admire your courage. Thank you for sharing. I won't 🫣
Reading this in the middle of the night after some PTSD nightmare shit is totally on me, but damn I understand why people are so particular about content warnings on here. I'll be more conscious of that from now. Just letting you know because you really could have done me a solid with one of those 🤷
Anyway I don’t wanna bring down the mood. This was more of a tongue in cheek thing. But some people genuinely showed interest; so I was sharing my bit.
If you ever wanna talk about trauma, childhood or otherwise, I’m here. You can DM me. 💗
me early pre-teens been mocked for being grumpy on Christmas morming, and they even took a photo of me while doing so (my dad's wife iirc), but it was just my resting relaxed face. And this is pretty much when I internalized to mask I think.
Just yesterday or so I was thinking I wouldn't mind going back to my childhood again. I then had to clarify that I meant the idealized version I was thinking of with just the things I liked and not the real cPTSD inducing version it actually was.
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That said, being told repeatedly about how you'll ruin your life if you don't graduate from school makes getting expelled (which is a whole story unto itself) pretty traumatic.
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> I had a complete mental breakdown and severe depression once I got into college
For me, last years of high school. Once before I left home. Again, much worse, about a year later, after moving to a different city and a school I'd chosen.
Everything was great at first, best 6 months of my life. Then came the seasonal black dog, and I started to struggle with *everything*. Hating myself, every day, for my weakness, for not coping with the emotional abyss opening up beneath me.
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Thank you for sharing, Farah.
South Asian families have this toxic & unhealthy mixture, especially our parents', generation of clinging strongly to the traditions of the past regardless of how meaningful they may be today while similtaneously not wanting to be trapped in the poverty that many have been trapped in for generations. They somehow don't seem to think that those traditions were somewhat responsible for their poverty.
I don't know how prevalent casteism is in your community. It is extremely prevalent in the biological family I was born into. I have to take several deep breaths while typing this out as their awful energy pervades the room I am locked in and infects everything I read, listen to, and try to type out. They have nothing to offer the world but their fair-skin and their ignorance. Their labor is purchased only by the various brands of fair-skinned fascists around the world. I unfortunately happen to be dark-skinned. They are so ignorant and seem to believe so strongly that it were their extreme skill, talent, capability that got them to where they are, they can't seem to understand or connect with my suffering at all. Their delusion has left them severely underdeveloped mentally, emotionally, intellectually, and spiritually.
I was nearly dead in Singapura when we migrated out in 2005. The child abuse, sibling abuse, and abuse at the public schools had all but destroyed me – conveniently preserving the illusion of superiority of the Chinese Singaporeans, and the delusions of the fair-skinned casteists who were purchased as some advanced for. of slave. While I obtained admission into Computer Engineering, I knew something had gone wrong deeply. The casteists around me were and are still too inept and incompetent to be able to understand the truth. They celebrated at the offer letters as though I were going to an IIT, their only reference for any educational system. As casteists, they merely needed to practice subservience to the superiorized castes in order to achieve their illusion of success. I was actually trying to learn what it means to learn, understand what it means to understand. Such depth of approach towards knowledge for the purpose of participating meaningfully in the society around them means nothing to them, nor did it mean anything to the whites who were settled high upon a mountain range of genocides.
The doctors refused to treat all of the severe symptoms that had developed, many of them were casteists. They clearly expected and desired my death because that is what the Chinese and the whites desired. My demise would mean a lightening of their skintone, and thus increased proximity to white & Chinese fascists and greater wealth for continuing to practice casteism and little else.
I was depressed but that was a symptom of CSA and complete dehumanization by age 12. It wasn't treated until after I staged a peaceful, non-violent protest against the normalization of my dehumanization in November 2011. After the arrest, I experienced the worst suicidal experience in my life which prompted a visit to the ER and only then did they bother to treat my illnesses, but only those on the surface, which they themselves contributed to.
I left Computer Engineering after a few years. It was racist, colorist, casteist, and extremely skewed in terms of gender. It was a rapists' paradise. I had been continuing on in the Science faculty. After the arrest, the medication degraded my intellectual capabilities. While I could study somewhat, I could not thrive.
I left university without a degree. I attempted to educate myself, while also attempting to address my health myself. None of the jobs worked out because of unaddressed childhood trauma. Not working has allowed me to address the decades worth of unhealed wounds. I have not worked in nearly 4 years now. The casteist biofamily treats me as though I were already dead, they take all of the things I bought for myself without asking me and use it in their old house that they rent out on AirBNB. I don't see a cent of any of it, I have no idea what the family's finances are. They have treated me like a ‘kaamwala’ (a servant) and tried to train me for the role that someone from an inferiorized caste would have served in India.
I used to have nightmares about being trapped in primary school. Sometimes I would be a squirrel trying to climb away from the gates of the school. Sometimes I would be a small bird attempting to fly high enough to clear the walls of the school. It has taken a long time before I could even see the word Singapore without getting traumatized. I would experience trauma looking at the number plates of cars. There were so many forms of unaddressed, unhealed trauma that I was forced to live with in public that I can never look at my backwards, ignorant casteist biofamily ever again.
None of this should be a trauma dump. I have addressed my wounds, I am secure and safe. I value the health & wellbeing of others, even if we have never met in person. I am extremely grateful to be able to interact with anyone at all and not be strictly confined to the caste hovel/prison that the casteists, Zionists, Chinese and white fascsist consider as sufficient.
I can look back and discuss any part of it. It may not be pleasant for me or for anyone else, but it should no longer be traumatizing for anyone else who has addressed their own traumatic injuries. I certainly hope that this is the case.
I have processed my trauma, this is an extremely sad and disappointing story of a good, kind, and respectful child's best intentions getting thrown away because of the color of his skin. But it is also a story of victory, perserverance, struggle and peace. I required no violence at all to survive, recover, and heal.
I now believe that I was one of the targets of an advanced, modern genocide taking place in the supposedly developed countries of the world, specifically eugenics towards dark-skinned people.
I do not interact with the casteist biofamily anymore, even if I live in the same house as them, because they are merely a cesspool of mental, emotional, intellectual, and spiritual illnesses & diseases. They have not developed or matured internally beyond the age of 15. Their spirituality is merely ignorance, magical thinking, and trauma.
Healing from childhood trauma is so vital and important. Without this healing, we will never connect with our intact basic humanity as adults – prime targets to be played with as pets & toys by the fascists.
I highly recommend Patrick Teahan's Youtube channel, I have learned so much about the various forms of suffering I had been living with and was forced to normalize so that the casteists around me could have their convenient delusion reflected back at them.
Farah🖖🏼
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in reply to Farah🖖🏼 • • •My parents were just perpetually disappointed in me. My dad especially when I wound up in jobs that didn't require a uniform. He wanted me in law enforcement or the military or even security...
The fact I made it as a professional writer which I wanted to be since I was 5 never counted for anything.
Farah🖖🏼
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FWIW I’m proud of you achieving your dreams
Jonathan Lamothe
in reply to Krampus Sponge: Fury Road • •@Krampus Sponge: Fury Road Though this was not always the case for me, the idea of a job that requires a uniform makes my skin crawl now.
That said, I wore a uniform in high school and it eliminated the stress of picking out my clothing in the morning.
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in reply to Krampus Sponge: Fury Road • •@Krampus Sponge: Fury Road Yeah, for me it was just about the decision paralysis that came from picking what to wear. I solve this now by keeping my clean clothing in a queue in the drawer.
At any rate, the bullies had plenty of other things to pick on me for. I didn't fit into the mainstream education system very well.
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Reading this in the middle of the night after some PTSD nightmare shit is totally on me, but damn I understand why people are so particular about content warnings on here. I'll be more conscious of that from now. Just letting you know because you really could have done me a solid with one of those 🤷
Don't worry, I'll get over it, not your fault 👌
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If you ever wanna talk about trauma, childhood or otherwise, I’m here. You can DM me. 💗
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And this is pretty much when I internalized to mask I think.
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