Talking about their mom beating them up for getting beat up then laughing about it haha wtf
They’d make us pick switches and you’d try to get the biggest one you could bc they hurt less than the small ones 🤣🤣🤣
Plus if you got a heavy one grandma would tire out after a few swats!
My dad, he tells people stories about his dad beating him like they're good memories. My brother in Christ, it's the reason you're so fucked up and suffering from undiagnosed PTSD.
For me I guess I have to be able to laugh at the bad shit that happened to me. Not because it's necessarily funny or anything but looking back it's so absurd I got slapped in the mouth for getting melted chocolate on my dad's new sneakers. Like, I was a child lmao what the fuck.
I am in therapy so that helps.
My grandmother says similarly about e.g. 20 years of abusive marriage to an alcoholic or her experience being left to raise her siblings at like 10 when her mother remarried. At some point ig there's not much that can be done but laugh
https://thehardtimes.net/blog/aw-crap-i-thought-i-said-something-normal-but-my-therapist-responded-lets-unpack-that/
My dad's stories about growing up on a farm in Puerto Rico were always tinged with the subtext of "And I never want you to ever have to deal with that kind of shit"
