That’s a lot of text, sorry, but it was therapeutic to type it out.

Actually I’m really glad if so. Thank you!

My point is that you don’t have to have a perfect support network that’s always there. Sometimes even indifference is better than actively having one’s teeth kicked in for trying to be kind.

I always got good grades

The fact that you had an education at all is also a support network.

I don’t mean to belittle your own efforts at all, but it’s easy to overlook a lot of environmental factors that help shape who you’ve become.

My OP on “support network” was vague on purpose. I’m seeing a lot of people take it to mean wildly different things.