The statute of limitations has expired on most of our childhood trauma

I survived my childhood without out any major long term damage. In fact in some ways I would say I had a pretty sheltered childhood. There were about 20 kids that lived on my road, we all used to play in the street every evening until it got dark not a care in the world.

I went to out local primary school, then on to the local secondary school all my friends were pretty normal (What ever that may be) and then I got the shock of my life when I moved away to college.

Stories of my new friends that were raped as children or abused, friends who had lost siblings or parents as an early age, eating disorders, suicide notes. I couldn’t get my head around it, either people just hadn’t spoken about these kind of issues or I had had my eyes closed.

I really felt that a lot of these people were the product of their childhood trauma and some of them still to this day are limited by the trauma they experienced, living on the edge of society and others have triumphed over the troubles they faced.

Its not always easy just to put aside trauma that you experience but you also cant spend your life looking back it will drive you insane.