Growing up with a problem that doesn't exist.

kanuk876 · 2008-07-05T22:54:43+00:00

Be it domestic violence or anything else, I believe we underestimate the damage wrought when we ignore one form of suffering and obsess over another.

Talk about alienating.

For example, when we tell one set of victims that their suffering doesn't count, we're implicitly telling the victims that they, as people, don't count. That their emotions don't count and cannot be trusted. Which is a form of child abuse in and of itself, right there.

CraigUma · 2008-07-06T03:53:13+00:00

Every Lifetime Network plot: drunk, abusive husband pushes wife down the stairs.

turkourjurbs · 2008-07-06T14:48:16+00:00

I was going to say something like 'oh just go to the police' but when I was in public school I was literally beaten by my teachers with books, rulers and everything else they could get their hands on. Those thick leather straps hurt like hell. But you're a kid. You assume that's just what you go through because nobody else is saying, 'hey, don't beat him over the head with a hardcover book in front of all the other students!'

One morning I simply refused to go to school. I told my mother what my teacher was doing to me and she just said, 'now, you have to go to school' and drove me in. When we got there she spoke with the teacher and when I got home later she just said 'apparently you're behind in homework'. Oh well.

What she didn't tell me until many years later was, when she 'spoke' with the teacher outside the class, she tore her a new asshole and threatened to transfer me to another school and have her charged. She didn't hit students anymore after that.

Point being, when you're a kid and you don't know any better, you just take it. There's no other choice (well I guess there's murder/suicide but those people are just nuts. (?))

Title	Growing up with a problem that doesn't exist.
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Upvotes	25
Comments	5
Date	July 5, 2008 8:56 PM UTC (18 years ago)
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