by Cosmic Light » Sat May 14, 2016 11:36 pm
I was bullied, at times pretty badly, by siblings, which does seem strange because they are younger than me. One would constantly call me attention seeker, immature, fat, while loudly screaming about how it was my fault the family was ruined and our mother had so many problems. Another one started to call me mentally handicapped, and demanded I admit to being less than she. She's screamed vulgar names at me and sadly to this day to a great extent still does it to this day. On one occasion I was violently beaten in the cheast by a sibling (thankfully much smaller than me at the time,) who clearly felt like that was the only they had to control my behaviour.
Did the sibling bully contribute to my PD? I don't think it's fair to blame it directly. But there were many many occasions growing up where our mother plainly wittenessed the bullying behaviour in a way that it would to any rational person have undeniably looked like a potentially serious problem, and took abosultely no action. Siblings became just a couple more people of a growing list that she let treat me like trash, and I've come to understand it was that constant lack of any concern for my emotional and mental safety that in part caused this disorder.