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brin-bellway:

theunitofcaring:

I think one of them was Siblings Without Rivalry, but I don’t know if that was the one with the ice-throwing story. I just read the first chapter because it was free on Amazon and I’m kind of alarmed I read it as a small child; it’s all about horrific intrafamily bullying and parents talking about how much witnessing this makes them hate their kids. Then again, I’ve repeatedly had the experience over the last few years of going ‘wow I read what when I was seven’ (Animorphs, yikes) so maybe small children are just actually pretty resilient.

(please stand by)

Huh, interesting. I tend to have the opposite experience: “wait, *this* was enough to terrify me when I was seven?” (There are a few episodes of mid-series Red Dwarf like that. They were trying to play the suspense for laughs, but back then I reacted as if it were played straight.)

It’s kind of comforting to see how I’ve improved. I tend to think of myself as fairly psychologically fragile, but compared to child!me I’m a goddamn juggernaut.

(it’s…probably for the best I never read Animorphs)

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#I did read a parenting book my parents had lying around when I was about nine #I don’t recall its specific problems #–and there may not have been anything specific so much as a general aura– #but I thought it was rather patronising and offensive #(as I had suspected it would be) #reply via reblog #my childhood #Animorphs #is the blue I see the same as the blue you see