Yes, I'm also really grateful for the wonderful childhood I did have, that helped me to have a sense of self, even if that has been eroded later in life due to things taking drastic turns in my family during my teenage years...which changed everything for ever. I had that basic loving foundation to build on, and even if I also had a lot of emotional abuse thrown at me, and psychological mind games designed to make me think I'm crazy, I still had that basic foundation that so many were denied. So I'm very lucky and very grateful that it was not much worse for me.