I was my family's scapegoat [View all]
I don't recall when I realized that I was the family's scapegoat, maybe when I was 60 or so, or maybe after my mother died?
My family (mom, dad, sister, and me) lived with my grandmother, who also had three children by my uncle (two of which may not have been his) whose mother plopped them down with my grandma.
I was the child who was bullied by all the kids...I just recall one time I was being particularly bullied into hiding behind the couch...I recall my mother saying "that's enough' as if everything before was just fine.
I ran away from home and went to court, and my mother told the judge I was 'incorrigible' and at age 13 I was sent to reform school.
I was the family scapegoat.
There is so much more, as I am sure some of you have experienced!
"Toxic Families Who Scapegoat" https://www.mentalhelp.net/blogs/toxic-families-who-scapegoat/
I think my mother was a narcissist?
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