Sheesh, I'm having some horrible flashbacks about childhood bullying.

[erronis]

4. I'm so glad you survived and are telling your stories.

I've always read whatever you posted - they seem from the heart.

Childhood traumas follow us to the grave. I guess some can forget them through therapies but I don't think most can get sufficient or they don't work.

Bullying in the young males - adolescent usually but also can extend into middle-life - is so common and so damaging.

The middle-school fears of even going to school since someone might beat you up or grab your lunch. I've stayed in the school library during lunch to not go out on the playground.

The older years when bosses can shit on any parade you may have created, just to affirm their alpha status.

Of course, as we age even further we become the "old folks" who are always in the way.

i don't remember signing up for this when I was just a glint in my father's eye and my mother's love.