Post by someone on Feb 3, 2012 9:02:14 GMT -5
And regardless of what I vent about here I reach out to her all the time.
I assumed it was a vent and that you would never say anything like that to her, I just wanted to point out that sometimes it's for real, even when everybody thinks it isn't. You're right, she has a crappy situation, but honestly that's the perfect harboring ground for self hatred and depression. I went through all of my bad stuff ages 6 and under but despite getting pulled out of hell and moving on with a good family, those first 6 years still haunt me and were the starting point for my mental issues. I still have issues from it, like trust, personal relationships, freaking out if somebody gets too close or walks up behind me. I have a lot of weird "quirks" that all started because of my early childhood. I'm not saying everybody in a bad situation goes through that but it certainly is easy to happen to somebody surrounded by a terrible environment.
And yes, teenagers can be very dumb. Some of the stuff I see I KNOW I was never like and other stuff I wonder how much I was blinded to at the time. I'm so thankful that my 18 year old niece has a pretty good head on her shoulders. She really escaped a lot of the stupidity of her peers.