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Childhood Born in the wrong place at the wrong time - Struggling with loneliness & rejection, isolation & insecurity, seeking connection.

Pauly86

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My childhood and adolescence were characterized by hatred, bullying and rejection. In all situations or life situations I was alone, had no friends and did not encounter friendly behavior of others or was rejected. At a young age I was beaten up by 2 classmates several times!

Because of this, I developed a real hatred against everything and everyone from my environment for a long time.

The problem of the whole thing, I was in my childhood and youth every damn day in my life alone and lonely. Everything that should be normal I could not do. I was afraid or just didn't have the strength to do it: party, go to the movies with friends, etc. I was simply abandoned by everyone! Everything was simply taken away from me!

I have tried again and again to find connection and again and again I was disappointed. This then led to loneliness and hatred or insecurity towards others.

The last years I have tried to change something in this situation. I constantly asked people if they would do something with me or invited me somewhere, just so I wouldn't have to be alone. But I distanced myself more and more from myself. If I was at home, none of the people were interested in me.

I avoided going to certain places or doing certain things for years because I was afraid of the others again. I moved away, back again and started hundreds of things but never became happy.

When I met my partner it was a little better in the short term. But in the back of my mind there were always those feelings and experiences from before.

I am f*cking 30 years old and have never celebrated a birthday in a "social" group in my whole life. Always only with my parents or my partner but never with a group of people. No one wanted anything to do with me. They said it to my face like that!

Whenever I take a step out of this situation now, I feel bad, insecure. I just notice how I lack these years of social experience, how something like this actually works. I am still a child inside and finally want this shit stops and I have fun in life.
 
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Whenever I take a step out of this situation now, I feel bad, insecure. I just notice how I lack these years of social experience, how something like this actually works. I am still a child inside and finally want this shit stops and I have fun in life.
hello pauly. welcome to the forum. sorry for what brings you here, but glad you are here.

sounds allot like my 30th birthday party. yeah, the one nobody remembered, much less celebrated. i earnestly believe i didn't have my first childhood until my mid 40's when my recovery finally progressed far enough to let me have fun. i still wasn't housebroken, but having my first childhood with my own car keys and a middle-aged bank account rocked hard enough to get barbie --the bitch who has everything-- envious.

at 69, i still haven't outgrown my first childhood, but i think i might be in danger of learning some social skills. think i should try out for the cheerleading squad next week?

just sharing. . . i mostly wanted to welcome you aboard.
 
Pauly86, I relate. I am 70 years old and have faked my way through personal encounters my whole life and continue to do so. It is good to hear from others who experience the same, so I don't feel like the only one. It is a human condition, unfortunately. I understand how i got this way and i try to be easy on myself and find enjoyment where I can, being open to different perspectives on this loneliness. I think you have a really good understanding of what got you to where you are now and you are continuing to find your way which I think is very significant and wish you the best as you sort it all out.
 
The problem is this f*cking fear that I carry inside me to this day.

No matter what I did back then and no matter where I went back then. I met with rejection and was alone. Whenever I tried to change something it backfired. First other people were nice, then they found out who I was and then they were all against me. This led me think that everyone hates me and everyone wants to do me harm and everyone is against me no matter how. I went crazy at some point and just didn't want to do anything anymore.

If I wanted to go to sports in the city I couldn't because one of the bullies was there. If I wanted to do an internship in a certain company in the city, I couldn't, because one of the bullies was there.

Whenever one of the bullies was somewhere or one was in some form of contact with the bullies and if it was just social media, everything was immediately bad for me. So at some point I wasn't doing anything at all!

I run away, I've been running away for years and I just don't know what to do. Running away only made everything worse and I fooled myself into believing that I was in a safe world, also through my relationship.

I just have such an extreme fear in me that was caused by the situations from before and it annoys me just so extremely that it just seems easier for others than for me. For me everything is always work or anxiety related and for everyone else social things are normal.

The last years I somehow got through my life but now it doesn't work anymore. I don't know why but I am so f*cking angry and could throw something against the wall every day.

God damn it! Others including my girlfriend go home after work and just have someone to chat to, an environment, safety, a sense of security.

I've been looking for this security for years and just don't understand it anymore! I just don't understand being social.

To this, it may also be necessary to say. My father has been severely depressed for years and could never show me a normal life!
 
To this, it may also be necessary to say. My father has been severely depressed for years and could never show me a normal life!

Sure I can try to get out, make friends and connect but it just hurts so much because you just want to have a friend, a familiar person, someone to talk to, someone who is always there and forms my social environment and is not just an acquaintance. Contacts from my past like my partner has them do not exist, this time is completely lost and gone.
 
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