I Grew Up In A Disfunctional Family Stories of Experiences

People do have a higher opinion of you considering the type of job that you are doing. Your lifestyle etc tells a lot about you.

But, little do they know of your past. Your background. Your early years.

I did not realise that I had...

Everything seems normal
till you find out it's not.
Then comes bewilderment, astonishment,
anger at the unfairness,
resignation, cluelessness, panic--
a whirlwind of confusing reactions.
What do I do now that I know
this is not the way...

I have to think about things for awhile, or maybe write about things, to really get an understanding of the issue. I suppose that's due to the "don't think, don't talk, don't feel" environment I'm from. Anyway, I have a poem in the...

I have seen many out-of-control kids over the years. How sad for their families, their neighbors, classmates, the community--but mostly for themselves. And tragically, I have witnessed ineffective parenting techniques. But there's...

I had just the one key, on a string
around my neck
like all the other latchkey kids.
Didn't anyone know we would need the other keys?
The ones that unlock social relationships,
leadership skills, character traits,
self-discipline, and...

I know that most my stories now have been about my depressing father, but getting this out is the only thing that makes me feel like someone actually cares about what happens in my life.
How can you talk to your loved ones about the...

As someone who grew up without the ability to depend on their parents to teach them the ways of life. I was forced to find a new teacher. I can remember vividly watching my parents fight. Sometimes I would just stand there and watch...

“Why Don’t You Like Me, Daddy?” is a courageous story about the cause and effects of physical and verbal child abuse. The cause is most likely from bipolar disorder; The Effects are explained by the author and the many behaviors...

Growing up my father was almost always at work.(He was overworked and underpaid!) He was an achoholic who would have occaisonal flashbacks and sometimes get aggresive. My mother was lazy and just watched t.v. at night and slept during...

The CactusThe OasisThe CorralThe Driftwood InnTom'sLittle ItalyWhen I think of the weekend activities spent with my parents during my (and my 4 siblings') childhoods, I think of these places. Most parents take their kids camping -- or...

My father was very abusive to my brother and myself, but mostly to our mother. I used every excuse I could to get out of the house, was lucky to have a surrogate father in my Scoutmaster, and achieved everything I could in Scouting.

Before I turned eight, I don't remember much. Maybe the occasional memory surfaced of the screams from my mother and the crying of me as a preschooler every morning as she expected me to magically wake up and dress myself at the tender...

I was the oldest child & the only girl. I was responsible for me younger brothers. if they did something wrong i would get in trouble for it. they would only get in trouble if they were caught red handed doing something & i would still...

I don't know where to begin... I grew up in a single parent household, with a mother who was dysfunctional. It felt like nothing I did was ever good enough for her. I wish I could be more specific but I think I blocked my childhood...

I grew up with a child molester. My father and all my uncles at one time or another molested me.
My father was the worst one of all. Everyone around him believed he was good and kind and could never do wrong even I believed it to for a...

My father had the kind of temper that made you cower and cry. Of course my brother had mental health issues which gave him the courage or stupidity to push my father's buttons more and talk back to him. So while I sat back and tried...

I grew up with my grandparents until I was three, when my mother came, and took me away. It felt like the first time I had met her, and my dad. Everything seemed great at first, we had a nice house, with a garden. Then when I was five...

Coming from a dysfunctional family I think made me emotionally premature as an adult. Growing up I was never taught how to deal with anger or issues because no one in my house hold knew how to deal with it.  I also have a problem with...

yesterday the ghost in my mothers house washed our dishes and cleaned our rooms, made my bed
the week before that it knocked on the window my mom's bedroom and she ran to it and told the ghost to leave, because the kids are still awake...

People don't seem to quite understand that by going by preconceptions and appearances makes one seem truly blind. I am seventeen years old, black and asian. Now to the family; I have no father-son-relationship with no one, technically I...