This is my first thread, and like many of you, I'm living with PTSD. I'm just going to start by saying that my pre-school teacher was mentally and physically abusive toward me. Although that is all I can share at the moment because I'm actually in the middle of a lawsuit with the teacher. But ever since then, the idea of being around small children causes me to have massive anxiety as well as memories of the abuse I endured years ago. It largely has to do with that there's no knowing if or when they're going to cry.