>>507198254pretty sure this is just the default experience of almost every boy growing up over the last 3 decades or so.
what makes it even worse is that it was always about such inconsequential shit.
if I had stolen from a store or broken into the swimming pool or something like that, I wouldn't have minded the beatings that much - I would have known I risked this outcome, and just taken it if it happened.
what made it so fucked up was that it could happen over everything.
your new shoes had some dirt streak on the side which you didn't even see? you won't be told to clean them, you'll get the beating.
someone threw a trash bag into the wrong bin? welp, here we go, doesn't even matter if it was you.
merely got a B in your exam? she'll make sure you remember that lesson.
got her a birthday present which she in some fucked up way managed to interpret as an insult? better run
at some point you just stop doing anything, because everything could lead to punishment.
managed to get over it eventually (and now I'm pretty much the exact opposite) but it took a long time and I will never get those years and missed opportunities back.
all over shit that could have been solved with something like
>anon, the trash bag is in the wrong bin, if that was you, please fix itor by just taking the literally 2 seconds to fix it herself because it was clearly just a mistake.