What's the single shittiest thing that your parents did to you as a child that you STILL haven't forgiven them for?

My time to drunken rant. Excuse the auto correct typos.

My patents when I was 13 decided I was I shitty enough kid to send me to a behavior modification and juvenile detention center in fucking ensenada, mexico.

There, I was immediately notified that the freedom of speech did not exist in mexico. 2 years of silence and mental degradation, mental abuse, and emotional teardown later, I was allowed to come home.

Problem was, I no longer cared for them. They had literally left me for dead in mexico. I endured mental and physical torture in a Mexican shithole because they felt it would make me a better child.

Instead, I came home, a shell of a person, with no friends, no experiences a normal child has. I never knew a prom, a homecoming. Never knew what it was like to talk to my friends about getting a license, about what schools to pick for college. I knew isolation, I knew Misery and solitude.

And from that, I learned hatred. I learned hatred for the people that took a normal childhood from me. The people that instead of giving me a normal childhood or even putting me out on the street so I could fend for myself and try to give myself a normal life, you put me in a psychological hell hole to break me down and take everything from me... To deny me my own normal childhood. Instead of knowing high school, I knew the inside of a darkened cell... I knew mental and physical torture.

In spite of you, not because of you, I became successful and never have and never will talk to you again.

I use my pure hated for you as motivation every single day.

In spite of you, I clawed myself to to top of my engineering field. I surpassed the 100k mark and reminisced on how you told me I would never amount to anything.

And here I am. Now about to surpass the one million dollar mark in hard cash. Another million in assets. Near 200k annual compensation in the form of equity and salary, I've made a life for myself WITHOUT YOU, not because of you.

Fuck you, from every fiber of my soul. You left your son to die in mexico, and he did.

I am not that boy you exiled, I'm a different person, and I will continue to succeed.

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