09-23-2022, 03:59 PM
The physical abuse was pretty brutal when I was a kid, but I somehow managed to not grow up to be a criminal or sociopath. Or at least I don't think I'm a sociopath. I've always been pretty empathetic. I was extremely hypersensitive as a child, and somewhat suicidally depressed in my early twenties. I had a violent temper and would break things when I was younger. The temper still comes out sometimes, but I don't act on it physically. Learning to program saved me from being a basket case. It taught me to work through problems logically, and to persevere until I found a solution.
