100%, but sadly many people, myself included didn’t get that and actively grew up in terrible environments.

I guess that’s what happens when you mum is 18 when you’re born. You’re being raised by a kid that didn’t make the best choices and the cycle continues. Although I don’t and won’t have children.

This is why school should be empowered to do more as that place is literally the only place you’re learning how to be a person and get ready for life.

I saw my dad beat my mum up. Been in the house when he tried to drive the car into the house but got stuck in the privits.

I’ve seen my mum attack my dad with a frying pan and witness my tea be dunked on her head. Or my dad go to prison for drunk driving.

Spent my entire pre high school childhood sat in the back of a car as my mum would berate the different men in her life.

Spent the following years seeing my mum psychologically bully my dad and he would be sat down stairs crying at night.

Is it little wonder that when people grow up like this and with ADHD that they might be hard to reach in school and that they are withdrawn.

I want to say that life’s hard and I don’t blame my family for the shit I grew up because they were young and not ready for life themselves as they had shit lives too. We were fed, went on holidays, and were richer than most of my council estate (I grew up there too) friends, but we didn’t get stability, love, or encouragement which is sad.

Like this is the tip of the iceberg of what shit I’ve seen growing up or some of the fucked up shit they dragged me into, being the eldest. I have two younger brothers and we are all fucked up in different ways but I’m by far the worst (as society would say) in every metric like wages, progress in life etc.