current life being better/less bad than childhood

[settheory]

everywhere, even in this forum i occasionally read about how much better their childhood was than their life now right now. i, however, don't share that feeling. i even feel a bit annoyed when i read or hear that yet another time. even though i read from quite some people about child abuse and things like that, why don't i ever read or hear people directly telling that their current life is a actually better or less bad than their childhood? i feel that my life right now is actually better than my childhood, even now when i am considering death. if i had an option to return to my childhood, i would decline. though it wasn't your typical "poor beating alcoholic papa/mama" hard childhood or having a torturous disease, i still don't miss it much. who else feels that way?

 

[ClownMe]

Had a shit childhood and adolescence and so far I've had a shit adult life. I would say both have been equally miserable.

 

[Alwaysbadtime]

Childhood was only better because I thought I could have upward mobility. I thought there were options and I even wanted to be emancipated. I was delusional. I achieved nothing and am adulthood is way longer than kid-doom. I can't do it.

It was a shit-show. Only child. Divorced parents. Bullied in school. Then terrible step parents. Bad at school. Isolated. But towards the end I thought I could enter x industry and make it. Ummm no. I was stuck then and still now.

 

[finish.me]

i can relate somewhat. though it's not the same situation because i was neglected and abused, and bullied, taken advantage of sexually, and in other ways, guilty and self hating starting around 8 years old. now im an adult and still just mildly abused, and it's objectively better. however i would say that if none of these things had taken place i genuinely think i would've still preferred adulthood, because before any of that stuff happening i truly remember just being bored, ALL THE TIME. nothing was interesting and i'd can recall just being in a constant phase of waiting for things, like waiting at a bus stop, waiting for lunch at school, waiting in bed for sleep, like nothing was genuinely enjoyable as a kid. I look back on early childhood and have no notable memories.

 

[BeansOfRequirement]

There is simply no way to make a distinction between the two for me, and it's very likely that this will never change.

 

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