Miscellaneous: Today, after much reflection, I realized my "happy childhood"... - FML

By Anonymous - 02/01/2016 02:07 - United States - Hillsboro

Today, after much reflection, I realized my "happy childhood" was more like "the years I was oblivious to how much people despised me." FML

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By never be the same - 21/07/2022 19:00 - United States

Today, I realized just how much of my life I’ve wasted. I was always raised with the “What will people think?” ideology by religious zealots. The anxiety it gave me influenced everything from what I wore, to where I went, even what I studied in school. I wish I’d been strong enough to be myself. FML

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By Foreveralone - 15/10/2019 00:01

Today, my coworker was talking to me about how there's always that one person in a group of friends that everyone secretly dislikes and laughs at. I realized that that person is me. FML

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By Anonymous - 28/03/2011 23:27 - United States

Today, I realized that even though I was an honor student throughout school, and considered the golden child who was going to go far in life, all I've accomplished a year after graduation is becoming an unemployed single mother still living with my parents. FML

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By Anonymous - 22/01/2021 00:31 - India - Bangalore

Today, I realised that I wasted my teenage life just to be a parent pleaser. I'm in the final months of high school and while everyone is enjoying the last days, I'm sat here being a "good" son, listening to my parents argue, maybe divorcing. I'm in tears and can't go out as I'm not invited to anything anymore. FML

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By Foreveralone - 09/04/2012 05:07 - United States

Today, my coworker was talking to me about how there's always that one person in a group of friends that everyone secretly dislikes and laughs at. I realized that person is me. FML

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Great parenting

By Anonymous - 27/03/2023 01:00 - United Kingdom - Bournemouth

Today, both my mom and dad agreed I basically ruined their life by existing. They weren’t even trying to be mean, they just casually mentioned that their lives were brilliant before me, then after I was born everything turned to shit and they’ve been miserable ever since. FML

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Motherly love

By anonymous - 12/08/2009 01:43 - United States

Today, I felt inspired to create a photo album of myself through the years. As I was organizing the photos of my childhood, I noticed how many my mom was holding me and hugging me in. When she came home from work I jokingly asked, "When did you start hating me?" She replied, "When you were 4." FML

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CPTSD

By Unknowingly abused - 19/11/2022 21:00 - United States

Today, and almost every day, I find out that something "mean" or morally questionable my parents used to do to me when I was a kid is actually considered abusive. I've now come to the conclusion that I was a victim of pretty much every type of abuse (except for the physical kind) during my childhood. FML

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By I suck :( - 07/05/2014 21:25 - United States - Louisville

Today, I was trolling on a My Little Pony forum. I was midway through typing a big post, calling them all a bunch of attention-seeking losers who act like morons because their parents never loved them, when I broke down in tears, realizing I'd just perfectly described myself. FML

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Make it stop!

By Anonymous - 04/06/2022 19:00 - United States - Steele

Today, I've finally accepted that my parents do not love me. They constantly do things that I hate, then casually remark to other people, "I think he's mad at me now." They also know my hearing is insanely hypersensitive, yet they're still obnoxiously loud for no apparent reason all the time. FML

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themysteriousfox 18

Sunday 3 January 2016 0:02

Happens to the best of us.

NomeDMF 17

Sunday 3 January 2016 1:30

First step is acceptance.

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palosqueak 19

Sunday 3 January 2016 0:38

ignorance is bliss.

nickie_94 18

Sunday 3 January 2016 0:39

Same here, but the people that despise me are "family"

Therid 22

Friday 18 November 2016 17:40

Yeah same dude

becca1998 22

Sunday 3 January 2016 0:58

Just forget about those people who didn't like you, go out and meet new people. Try for a fresh start, hope it gets better though:)

GeorgiaBea 28

Sunday 3 January 2016 1:45

I think that is rather par for the course in most of our lives. Children are selfish, and narcissistic, mainly because it is what keeps them alive long enough to survive into adulthood. As we grow, we either learn emotional intelligence or we don't. As long as you are a better person than you were yesterday, and you feel good about yourself, then try to not let others opinions bother you.

hannahkonda 14

Sunday 3 January 2016 2:45

I know that feel OP. Looking back mine was "those people that tolerated me because we saw each other every day". They actually told me we couldn't be friends anymore when we got to high school because I didn't fit in with the new friends. Children can me so mean.

Animeisthebest1 14

Sunday 3 January 2016 3:12

Ignorance is bliss

more4me 27

Sunday 3 January 2016 3:28

Totally relatable !

fungi0528 12

Sunday 3 January 2016 6:55

Dude I knew that during my childhood.

BadLuckHero 6

Sunday 3 January 2016 7:16

That's my childhood in a nutshell

jessreallysucks 19

Sunday 3 January 2016 9:22

I know the feeling all too well

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Today, my roommate came back drunk from rushing fraternities. Normally I wouldn't have minded, had he not immediately pissed and thrown up everywhere after entering the room. If only I had moved my guitar and the suitcase full of clothes I had left out after returning from break. FML

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Today, my sister, who used to be my best friend, texted me asking why we never talk anymore. Hmm, maybe it’s because she stopped answering my calls, texts, carrier pigeons, smoke signals, psychic reachings, and every other form of communication since she got a new boyfriend six months ago. FML

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Today, desperate for work, I went into a shop and asked the owner if he had any spare jobs to fill. He looked me up and down and sneered "Yes, but not for people like... you." FML

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Today, because I was the only manager scheduled, I went into work despite feeling sick to my stomach. While sitting down with a customer, I got the urge to throw up and tried to hold it back. Instead I vomited in my mouth, instinctively swallowed and started choking in front of the customer. FML

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Today, I found out the guy I was seeing was married, with a kid, when his wife sent me a friend request on Facebook. FML

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