-Teachers start to cover your sporadically bad grades up after meeting them at the parents' evening and realizing they are batshit crazy and there's emotional abuse at home.
-Child learns to forge their signature to save their hide.
-Teacher scorns you and let's it go because they DO KNOW your parent is a borderline sociopath.
-They are always wondering outloud how carefree their life would have been without kids.
-Child is an accesorized extension of their persona. They are not to express themselves through clothes, makeup, music or any creative outlets.
-Withholds basic rights like food and clean/new clothes.
-Wonders why their adult children are No Contact with them.