Everyone is normal until you get to know them

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So where you raised in a dysfunctional family?. Who isn't to a greater or lesser degree. The title of my topic is a book by John Othensburg BTW.

Granted this is a wide range topic, as not everyone raised in a ''dysfunctional'' family will display these traits or vice verse of those not born into a ''dysfunctional'' family.

They do say if your parents are divorced that is dysfunctional so majority of the country is if you take it on that alone.

Just thought it might be a good discuss topic so your thoughts please?..

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Eight Signs You Were Raised in a Dysfunctional Family

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Well, there is a huge span when it comes to the term 'dysfunctional'. It ranges from mildly dysfunctional to completely nuts.

There is really no guide when it comes to determining how dysfunctional a family is but, for the purposes of this article, we are leaning towards the 'completely nuts' end of the spectrum.

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Cont: http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/alexandra-massey/dysfunctional-families_b_5952686.html
 
I know a lot of peoole get divorced but it's still (just) less than 50% so your assertation that it applies to most of the contry is erronious.

 
Meh, I'm not normal, I don't strive to be normal, but my upbringing was perfect, safe and well balanced.

Not sure I buy that list as signs personally.

I'd hate to be run of the mill and normal I must admit, albeit life no doubt would have been easier.

And to quote the great line in quadrophonia... 'What's normal anyway?'

 

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Just looked it up VOTN

Here's the stat figures for Wales & Britain

http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/vsob1/divorces-in-england-and-wales/2011/sty-what-percentage-of-marriages-end-in-divorce.html

Yes it was a rather generalised statement. Just feels like just about everyone I know has been divorced at some stage.

My childhood certainly wasn't normal though it looked it. I didn't know it was abnormal cos why would I. Only childhood I knew. Much to do with why I recreated some of it.

I am not normal whatever that is even though I know myself. I will stick with quirky and different.

Yes I think the list is a bit general too..
 
So as I said, 42% is less than 50% :14:


Besides, I think normal, in these terms, is another term for boring. Who wants to be boring?

 
My family was and still is dysfunctional in the terms of everybody argues and fights and can go years without speaking ever since me nan dies who kept everybody together going round her house and meeting up, she would always get the ones who was arguing to sort it out and end it there and then or they would get a clip round the ear, miss her badly we all do.
 
I think my family is dysfunctional, but for a different reason. They are all too nice. I never saw my parents fall out, and it was the same with my Grandparents, Aunties and Uncles. Nobody has ever got divorced. Everyone has (or had) a job. Everyone helped everyone else.

I seriously thought Soap Operas were completely made up until I was about 17. I never saw behaviour like that shown in them in my family.

 
I had some barmy old aunties who frightened me to death. One lived in a mews flat in Kilburn. She used to be into spiritualism and all that strange stuff. You couldn't have a cup of tea without her grabbing it and reading the tea leaves. She had loads of old stuff around the place. In the room where I slept when we visited there was a polar bear rug on the floor, head and all. Imagine being a ten year old kid waking up in the dark and seeing two glassy eyes glaring at you.
 
HeathfieldRoad1874 - 14/10/2014 14:46

I think my family is dysfunctional, but for a different reason. They are all too nice. I never saw my parents fall out, and it was the same with my Grandparents, Aunties and Uncles. Nobody has ever got divorced. Everyone has (or had) a job. Everyone helped everyone else.

I seriously thought Soap Operas were completely made up until I was about 17. I never saw behaviour like that shown in them in my family.
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LOL yes you would Heath. However I find it hard to find any so called 'normal' families with the work I do, so I get it from both angles.

Oh believe me my life story alone could give soap opera's running scripts for years.

Hollywood would love my story however they aren't getting it. It's epic and unusual.

Yes I have written my book and had it printed. It is not in the public sector because I wouldn't do that to my youngsters. It is too small a world. Even with names and place changes the story is still too unique for it to be kept private.

So why did I write it? I wrote it for my benefit to get clarity on the whole of my life when I knew the in-depth work of my life was finally sorted and I had my own clarity.

I could make a fortune through magazines and books however money isn't important in comparison and nor is it worth my children's privacy.

Yes I am open about who I am. Yet the details are far more vague, that I share, than a full written book with all the gory details.
 
Fuck sake Little Prince George is from as dysfunctional family put him in care so an Asian sex gang can plough him stupid
 
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