What’s something you thought was normal growing up, but later realized was toxic?
What’s something you thought was normal growing up, but later realized was toxic?
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What’s something you thought was normal growing up, but later realized was toxic?
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Puffer fish
Lead paint chips
Smelling gasoline
Spankings
Getting sexually abused by my Mom. I just thought all moms were weird and whatever, she’s in charge right and she’s a mommy and mom’s can do no wrong… right?
Literally just about everything that my mother or father did. Took me a long time to realize that most adults don’t freeze under their covers in terror when they hear footsteps in the hallway. Rediscovering the world in my late 20’s, early 30’s was AMAZING though. I remember the first time I felt safe. I was 29.
Women with blue hair.
The walls and ceilings of my family home – artex with asbestos. Asbestos ban in the UK was only as late as 1999.
Everything my illiterate alcoholic abusive father told me