Anonymous thoughts about childhood.
Where the parameters for everything else were set.
Before language, before awareness, before being able to see the patterns being built.
What was given and what was taken from the very beginning.
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Childhood is the original context — the one that set the parameters for everything that followed. The patterns absorbed before you had language to name them. The version of the world you learned from the specific family you happened to be born into.
The things people carry from childhood are often the hardest to see clearly because they're the baseline. They feel like the way things are, not the way things were. The examination of it — what was given that you never asked for, what was missing that should have been there — is slow and often uncomfortable.
Anonymous thoughts about childhood posted here are the honest account of what it actually was and what it left behind.