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FauxLiz
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Thank you everyone for the support. It has been a tough day but I was really busy at work so that helped me not to dwell on this. My relationship with my father is strained and virtually non-existent. There was a lot in that of context in that statement. I have always been the outcast in my family. Of 6 kids I was the only one that couldn't work in the family business due to life threatening allergies. That and the fact that I look like neither of my parents led to insecent teasing by my siblings that I was adopted, the mailman's daughter, switched at birth just about any way to tell me I wasn't really part of the family and they teased me in front of both parents which never attempted to stop them. Nothing I ever did growing up was right and this and many other reasons are why my family of origin contributed to significant aspects of my childhood trauma. So hearing my dad tell me that something has been wrong with me for a long time what I heard was can't you do anything right? Why are you such a screwup? It may not be what he meant but he heard specialized treatment center and what he really heard was she is going to rehab which is crazy as he sees me maybe once every 12 months if I am lucky so why he would think that I don't know.