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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2014-10-13 07:03 pm

[ SECRET POST #2841 ]


⌈ Secret Post #2841 ⌋

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Re: hitting disobedient children

(Anonymous) 2014-10-14 10:10 pm (UTC)(link)
My dad used to beat me up in many unusual ways until I'd be bruised and to the point that my reaction to that started to become "OH YOU WANT TO HIT ME? SEE HOW FAR THAT GOES! I FEAR NO PAIN!". At age four. That's fucking messed up, and anyway I was still afraid of being grounded in one way or another, so it was absolutely pointless. Physical punishment became so run-of-the-mill that it did nothing to me, other than make me think about how fucked up it was that my dad tried to masquerade his aggressive tendencies as "correction" even though it was obvious that I was completely unafraid of pain, and it made me swear that I would have never become that sort of person as an adult. Since my dad wouldn't stop doing this, though, I eventually started to retaliate. You hit me? Well I will hit YOU. Which is a pretty horrible thing to bring a child to do. He only stopped many years later, when after one time that I replied to his attack he realized that I could have easily killed him there.

Despite this all I am more or less fine and I did not turn into a violent person as for what concerns my expression of anger, but just as long as you don't try to hit me, as my reaction to that is still very much to strike back.

Now I'm sure my case is pretty extreme and it might be a whole other category than spanking, but there's one thing pretty evident in this all: that the threat of pain did nothing to make me obedient, and if something it brought up the opposite, as I thought that my dad did not respect me, and therefore was not worthy of my respect, either.