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I grew up in a traumatic home, but my siblings disagrees with me about what happened. Who is right?

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Anonymous on Nov 16, 2014
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Hello there. Even if you both had the same experience you and your siblings might understood it in different way. I believe if you love the person (in this case your parents) its hard to admit that they harmed you in any way. Both of you are right. The question is can you live with it?
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Profile: helena90
helena90 on Nov 18, 2014
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Only you know what you went through if they where also there then its good to lists as they. Mat see a different. View
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laurlistens on Nov 19, 2014
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It depends. Everyone has a different idea and view on what is traumatic and what isn't. I think what is most important is how you feel your home growing up was and how to take it from there.
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caringApricot86 on Mar 14, 2015
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Only you know the answer to that, everyone remembers differently and what may affect you more than others. Also, people can put things behind screens they may not be able to remember the same as you. I grew up in a traumatic home and my mother calls me a liar but I know what I remember and have gone through, but it can destroy families through an unwillingness to face the past
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Anonymous on Mar 15, 2015
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Everyone experiences things different your siblings may of had a different up bringing but its important to listen t each others experiences
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bettereverdaay on Nov 3, 2015
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It is not a matter of right or wrong. your sibling may have repressed the memory and so to them it didn't happen. that doesnt make you wrong or make your memory any less valid.
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In a way, everyone is right, and everyone is wrong. Because you all saw and heard different things, because you were all different people, it really depends on who saw what at what time
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Anonymous on Feb 10, 2018
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Both. As some said before. Sometimes they may just have not come to accept their home was traumatic or effected them . Sometimes it different because of their gender, age, personality, health as child and even if you or siblings have a disability (Physical and/or Mental). However no matter why the differing perspective, your trauma is valid and you deserve to be treated with love and understanding.
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SierraSunrise on Dec 3, 2019
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Trauma is subjective and we all experience it differently. Your siblings may have seen/felt things differently based on having a slightly different situation - not being there for specific events, or being different ages to you. Trauma also ties in with your personality type, and your own emotional needs may be/have been different to those of your siblings. No one is right or wrong in these situations, as feelings cannot be wrong. If you feel that your childhood had a negative affect on your life, it may be helpful to work through this with a therapist to understand it better and to process the feelings that you've carried with you since then.
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Anonymous on May 19, 2020
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Neither of you is wrong. You are both right because your individual experiences in that home are from two different perspectives. Case in point, I was molested and raped (sodomized) for years in my home growing up, but none of my siblings went through the trauma I did. Yet all three are suicidal and depressed based on all the other physical and mental abuse we suffered. I am sorry that we did go through that and I am sorry that we are learning now at our older ages that we all went through something traumatic. Did I have it worse? Not anymore than them in the sense that we all went through something evil. But my "worse" might be their best if someone else put in from their outside perspective. It is not anyone's place to denigrate your perspective as right or wrong. That is what makes it unique and so it is simply to say, that your allowed to have gone through trauma and your sibling may not have had that experience at all, even with the same people. We all do not always get equal treatment in life anyway.
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