11. Unrelated issues
“My mom, aunts and grandmother quietly discussing the possibility that one of my cousin’s was not actually related by blood. Little jugs have big ears and whilst all my other cousins were running around like chickens with their heads cut off, I was reading a book in the living room until the subject matter being discussed piqued my interest. Years later my uncle divorced his wife because it turned out to be true…sadly, he did not want anything to do with the little boy who for years had grown up as one of us. I haven’t seen him since he was six and I was ten.” — ChaoticInsomniac
12. Missed call
“When I was 10 my grandmother said, “if you would have just answered the phone none of us would be here now would we?” at my dad’s funeral after he committed suicide, and I was his last phone call. Think about that every day of my life.” — SilkyPanda317
13. Words hurt
“My mom telling me she wished she had never had kids with I was 7-8.” — CommunicationTime375
14. Weak sauce
“My gran calling my Dad weak and a coward the day after he took his own life. That day I said f*ck you and meant it.” — redridingnuts
15. Overheard trauma
“At a family cook out, my grandmother was talking to my uncle about the time she was raped. I was sitting right beside her. I heard it all. No one has ever remembered anything so vividly ever since. Never have I ever been so pissed at humanity for what people do to others until that point.” — RunAwayLoafz
16. Bad stop
“When I was in 3rd grade, my class took a field trip to a history museum in the capital of the state I lived in at the time. After the tours were over and we had eaten lunch, we piled onto the buses and started to leave. To put it nicely, the capital wasn’t a very nice place, high crime rate, bad roads, worn down houses, that kind of stuff. Anyways, the bus was stopped at a stoplight and my friend and I were playing the alphabet game, so we were naturally looking outside the window at the time. Should’ve just slept the way back, because we saw a guy get mugged and stabbed right at the crosswalk. Parents and teachers started to freak out, one parent vomited, the bus driver just floored it out of there. Kinda screwed everything up at the school for the next few weeks, the word got out real fast and we had to have an assembly about it. Occasionally still have nightmares about the whole thing, never found out if the guy ever got medical attention or not, so it’s possible I watched a man die when I was just a small kid. To this day I can’t drive through that city, if I have to get close to it in any way I take a different route.” — CodeName_889
17. Bad dad
“My dad: ‘Why is she so ugly?’ I was 8. I went to the mirror and cried. It was the first time I ever realised that I could actually look at myself with judgement. It never stopped.” — odd_neighbour
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