I'm already super late, so this is definitely going to be buried, but my parents often went through my room and threw out whatever they deemed unacceptable to keep.

I lost all of my original Pokemon cards, gifts from my grandmother while she was states away, keepsakes from school trips. I didn't have friends as a child and I was bullied from daycare until the 8th grade, so all I had were my 'things'. Whenever they felt I was getting too much, my dad would send my mom in with trash bags while I was at school, or at a friends house.

I would often come home to find all of my belongings ransacked, nothing put back, so much missing, and I would have to clean up what was left. If I tried to go through the garbage cans outside to recover whatever I could, I would get my ass whooped and they threatened to throw the rest away if I brought anything back into the house. I would get panic attacks when coming home to find my mom going through my things. I've lost so much of my childhood over those years. They would never just let me sit with to help dictate what could be let go of and what had sentimental value either, so I had absolutely no control over myself or my belongings.

I used to have a lot of issues with my stuff and for the longest time would break down if things went missing or if someone took something without asking me. I used to prize my possessions more than people because of my childhood, and what my parents did broke me.

To this day they refuse to think they did anything wrong. This on top of other issues they created is the reason I still don't have a healthy relationship with either of them.

Every time I remember something I used to have as a child that went missing I break all over again. It's making me so angry to think about. Don't do this to your kids.