I was once addicted to Rx drugs and this is ALMOST the worst thing I did during that time. I had decided I was sick of myself so went cold turkey off benzos. I then took my 14 yr-old niece on a trip to the zoo because I was trying to be a decent person again. I woke up in an ambulance after a seizure with my poor…

I realize you already know this but it wasn't your fault. You were a child, telling was the right thing to do. The system let you all down. I hope you've forgiven yourself.

I’m so sorry. I hope you’re well.

Omg

I was the eldest of 3, in a lower middle class family with not much money. My parents splurged on a new, expensive recliner one day for my dad. A few nights later they went out and left the 3 of us home. Not a good idea.

You’re not gonna choose this cause it’s too dark, but definitely fist fights with dear old dad. (Don’t beat your kids and they won’t start hitting you back around age 12, 13.)

Our house had some decade old alarm system. I hated it because my room had a sliding glass door, and it would be easy for me to sneak out if not for the alarm which my parents set at night (and the beeps any other time a door was opened.

In high school, I was in a lot of plays, and worked backstage for all the ones I didn’t get a role in. My mother, bless her, was very supportive of her little theater nerd, and did her best to seem very interested in the many, many amateur productions I part of.

How did you get a cab as an unaccompanied 7 year old??

Truly the shittiest? I undoubtedly suffered from depression as a teen and although I made it to Sixth form (sorry, don’t know what the US equivalent is), within a year I’d managed to get myself kicked out. I maintained the facade for about 6 months before the stress, depression and realisation that I wouldn’t actually…

Replace stolen guns with computers/consoles, and add in destroying a toddler’s room, two dented car doors, and dozens of dick drawings all on the house and driveway and you have my brother’s 20 person turned 100+ high school rager...

And in a movie-esq ending- he was woken up the next morning- among piles of passed…

I once punched my mom in the face in the grocery store in front of half a dozen horrified onlookers, I was 15. 

I grew up in a two family house. A young couple lived on the first floor and mine lived on the second. One day the wife came up to have coffee with my mother. I told the wife that my mom laid on the floor to hear the couple’s fights better.

Context: When I was a teenager a medical condition meant that I had a *lot* of surgery on my brain in a short space of time. My parents had to go through a lot of years of trauma watching me suffer the effects of high pressure in my brain of which the symptoms include blacking out and vomiting.

So my mom was extremely, cartoonishly abusive and absolutely had this coming BUT: when I was about 9, I found a dead bird in the driveway so I picked it up with a plastic bag and then deposited it on her pillow

I made my mom give mouth-to-mouth resuscitation to a dying hamster. This was the second hamster to die in a short period of time. Hamster number 1 escaped and was very likely murdered by a cat, so we were already traumatized. I was sobbing and she had to so something, so she laid a piece of cloth over this probably…

Worst thing i ever did was tell my dad that my mom was beating me (she was). He used the info to try to get me and my bro. She won in court. I was about 8 or so at the time. I got to see my dad 2 more times before i buried him when i was 19. I know i was a kid but i still regret it. Things could of been a lot better. 

When I was about 7 I used to tell anyone who would listen that my mom was pregnant “because she got fat”. I found out at 27 my mom had her tubes tied as soon as medically possible after I was born.

My god, where do I start...

I was 8 years old, and my family and I were driving to Niagara Falls in Canada for a nice long weekend trip. My sister and I were sleeping in the backseat when we got to the border, and my parents woke us up so that it didn’t look like they were smuggling 2 children under the blankets. I was pissed to be awoken from my…