Childhood emotional neglect is an often-ignored form of trauma that can really do some lasting damage on the children who grow up without the emotional support they deserved.
Then, because we don’t talk about childhood emotional neglect, the child grows up thinking there’s just something wrong with them for being so “weird” and needy and clingy, or “weird” and distant and aloof, or just “weird” in general.
Especially when it comes to seemingly harmless phrases that can actually make people with a history of childhood emotional neglect very upset.
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