Has anyone else here heard that argument and become upset? Like it just gives them a pass, like ‘oh it’s just because they were hurting’.

It’s not true. It’s an evasive, flawed way to escape reality- but why do people propagate it? It implies everyone who is kind and compassionate is just so because they were in the right environment.

But that’s wrong.

Trauma can exist without future cruelty. Thousands of children grow up in traumatic, abusive environments, whether at home or at school, and do not abuse or inflict deliberate pain on other children.

In science, if there is variance in behaviour when candidates are exposed to a single variable, then that variable is not causing all the variance.

It’s their choice.

I was bullied as a kid like so many kids here.

I am autistic myself and was born EPT (25 weeks gestation)

I am an adult now but the truth is it still really scares me thinking of it even now, at 22.…