It is not easy coming from a place of hurt and abandonment. It led me to resentment, denial, and anger towards all those with whom I crossed paths.
My defense mechanism was to treat people as poorly as I had been treated. I acted spitefully and ungratefully without even realizing it.
With pain, sometimes there is no gain, just more pain. There was no sense of normalcy in my childhood. I was born with Treacher Collins syndrome, a physical deformity that affects the bone structure and appearance of my face.
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