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i always see positivity posts about survivors that were forced to grow up early, and that’s great, but what about those of us who weren’t allowed to grow up at all? those of us who were sheltered, trapped, controlled? kept in a child-like state for far too long? treated as children by parents and by what few peers we had because we “knew nothing”?
those of us who finally stepped out into the real world and knew nothing? who learned to lie and manipulate for safety, but never even learned what a family should look like? never knew what the world was really like?
what about those of us who left the nest late? who still felt twelve at twenty, going away to college for the first ever time? who have been winging it and googling things ever since? who are still afraid to ask peers for the fear of being ridiculed or treated like children? what about those of us who are still called immature to this day?
we’re here too. it isn’t our fault. we’re not less than for the way we were abused and manipulated. we are as old as we are, and we’re allowed to feel as old as we feel
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