How old were you when you first learned that the real monsters come in human forms?
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@moonrabbit I can relate to your thoughts.
@moonrabbit I'm reminded of that quote about it being both a blessing & a curse to feel/care so much.
@PhoenixSerenity The hunch existed earlier, but getting pushed down the stairs at church and ending up in the emergency room was the confirmation. I was four.
@YakyuNightOwl I think many of us have suffered from early childhood church related traumas. I have a few.
@PhoenixSerenity Less than seven. An ad on TV about human suffering, and I started bawling, and everyone else in the room was like “what?”
@Cassandra A young humanitarian.
@PhoenixSerenity Still seems like it shouldn’t be the outlier response.
@PhoenixSerenity probably when first hearing a less self-censored version of what the more extreme neoconfederates at religious school wanted and what they feared would or would never happen, around 11. Actually probably earlier, but it was much more vivid when it reached those first detailed descriptions.
@PhoenixSerenity 16 when I've learned about SouthAfrica apartheid. Later I became obsessed with Holocaust everywhere.
@disisdeguey2 I remember being sickened when learning about SA apartheid in my early teens.
@PhoenixSerenity When I watched a documentary about WWII death camps in my early teens.
@PhoenixSerenity 10... or 12... idk... and then I confirmed at 16...
@passocacornio I was pretty young too. Probably around 10 & confirmed a few times since.
What humans are willing to do to each other (and to Earth) is more horrifying than any fictional horror film that I've ever watched or read about.
@PhoenixSerenity meow... yeah... and they always do some heinous act in the name of "protecting the children" (I am not even talking about the current political landscape)...
more than 20 years passed and I'm still dealing with it...
@passocacornio Yup. Protecting the kids. Supporting the elderly & disabled more. All lies!
I'm with you in talking about decades of this same shit. With 2 different types of conservatives in power.
@PhoenixSerenity
i learned that unwell, troubled humans could act like monsters before i can even remember. but as for actually being them, a little older but still single digits. in horror at all the violence and suffering that was carried out — unlike the violence in my house — almost gleefully all over the world. toward humans and animals and trees and all.