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Did you have a happy or unhappy childhood?

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This is partly research as I've spoken on another thread about the fact that I don't remember anyone on this forum over the years saying that they had a happy childhood.

Rather a lot of us seem to in particular had very unhappy home lives.

I wonder if that is significant?

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  • I was very happy as a child until I had to go to school; then I was rather miserable, sometimes overwhelmed and often exhausted, in and by school, but continued to have a happy home life. My parents were wonderful, supportive people. My temperament was very similar to my father's (autistic traits?) and I was therefore not a big surprise, behaviourally, to my mother.

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  • I was very happy as a child until I had to go to school; then I was rather miserable, sometimes overwhelmed and often exhausted, in and by school, but continued to have a happy home life. My parents were wonderful, supportive people. My temperament was very similar to my father's (autistic traits?) and I was therefore not a big surprise, behaviourally, to my mother.

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