I'm still in touch with someone I went to middle and high school with. Both their parents died when they were in their early 20s, essentially from complications of mental illness. In one conversation, I think they said something like: I really wish more people understood mental illness in the 70s and 80s, and there had been real help for us.
The abuse you describe was so common. I didn't realize it until much later that most girls were mean and surly to nearly-silent me likely because of abuse at home and at school.
I'm still in touch with someone I went to middle and high school with. Both their parents died when they were in their early 20s, essentially from complications of mental illness. In one conversation, I think they said something like: I really wish more people understood mental illness in the 70s and 80s, and there had been real help for us.
The abuse you describe was so common. I didn't realize it until much later that most girls were mean and surly to nearly-silent me likely because of abuse at home and at school.