Before I start: For those who don't know, common signs of a person having a bad childhood are these:
Being more calm in dangerous situations, flinching at quick movements, acting like an adult at a young age, being independant, not remembering childhood properly, etc.
Time to start.
For most of my life, I felt as if I've been ignored by my dad, but I never let it get to me, until 4 years ago. Now, I can't remember MOST of my younger years, but I can only imagine that it was bad, especially for 2-3 years in Primary School where my brother and I were bullied and some kid made up a virus with our names with "germs" at the end of it. I didn't really care for it, but there was this time where it got particuarly bad, and a kid got instant karma for it.
For context, I was in year 3, and my year was having "Pajama Day" and we got to bring in our doonas and pillows, plushies and what not. This kid, who I'll call "Harris", would not stop picking on me, and I knocked on the teachers door for help, not knowing the situation, they didn't do anything(at first), but when they saw me pounding on their door, face red from tears, they came out, and expelled the child on the spot. Why? I was friends with the teacher, and complimented on her necklace when I found out she was my teacher, unknowing it was her first year there. I was allowed into the teacher's room ever since(along with my brother), and it's where we spent most of our lunch and recces time ever since, but we did go out in the playground. We were great friends with the teachers, and on my last day of Primary, I recall visiting her, giving her a hug before saying goodbye. Sometimes I wish I could see her again to say thankyou for being an adult I could trust outside of my mother and older sister.
Back to the shit that makes me rage though. I for the longest time since 2020 knew something was off with my dad, especially when he began to drink more and more, often leading to bad situations. Now, I've told this story before, but I remember when he locked me out of the house knowing I was coming home from school by walking(since it was a 15 minute walk there and back), and I had to pick-lock the back door to get inside. He and my mom would have constent arguements, and I would hear some of it and it'd make me want to absolutely bash the shit out of my dad, but I kept it to myself and hid my pain.