For me it was just that my mothet was completely emotionally absent and my father was physically not absent. That and being constantly told I have no future by just about everyone.
People rarely said it out loud, they just consistently treated me that way. I was an outsider in a community that isnt mine and someone with Autism in a community thats centuries in the past.
Sure, I watched her try to kill my dad, and I feared she would kill me during the beatings, but I wouldn’t call it “abuse”.
That’s only slightly sarcastic; my brain tells me the same thing yours does.
For me it was just that my mothet was completely emotionally absent and my father was physically not absent. That and being constantly told I have no future by just about everyone.
Nuts to that! You have a future that I’m very keen on hearing about!
How is that not abusive?
People rarely said it out loud, they just consistently treated me that way. I was an outsider in a community that isnt mine and someone with Autism in a community thats centuries in the past.
So… neglect. While not abuse, still an impactful form of maltreatment.
I know this is entirely semantics, but neglect is a form of abuse.
If someone had roughly similar experiences I would respect them if they called it abuse, thats just not how I define it for myself.