Which does more damage over ten years: the shouting, or the silence afterwards?
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Chessie Renata Hudson@ChessieRenata· Sep 10That's a great question, and one which for me, is incredibly nuanced. It depends which ten years we're looking at, and what type of damage is being done. If I take the ten years where I was between ages 8-18, it was the shouting, which did significant psychological damage to


Remember the fifth of November.@rememberthefift· Sep 10You are right it is different for everyone. We each have the way we see the world and think. Also throw in some learning disabilities aka learning differences. My memory is shot to heck because of a tetherball incident. That and short and long term memory issues. Its a blessing
Chessie Renata Hudson@ChessieRenata· Sep 11That resonates with me, as most of my father's yelling was on a schedule. It would be whenever my mother had to stay overnight somewhere for work. I would find out that she was doing that about a week in advance, and the countdown to the inevitable was awful.
Chessie Renata Hudson@ChessieRenata· Sep 11On your last point, I think I fall somewhere in the middle. I isolated myself for years, because the solitude helped with healing, especially as I was in the depths of autistic burnout. Its only very recently that I've have retuned to X and started healing in community with
Chessie Renata Hudson@ChessieRenata· Sep 11It was awful. It wasn't just yelling, it was smacking too, and I used to think I'd been lucky if it was just yelling. Lucky! As the yelling and smacking was always over my room being messy, I'd make a special effort to tidy up beforehand, hoping each time that maybe I'd done

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