Whenever I talk to my Sister about our upbringing I get that feeling.

As much as she is a wonderful, beautiful, intelligent person, she does seem to be stuck in the Jerry Springer mind frame when it comes to our family.

OK, so we probably shouldn't have been having to deal with some of the emotional stuff that was put on us so young, and we do have an unusual family background and there is a lot of pain there, but there are other families who go through that without the buffer of a high level of intelligence and good health to keep things in perspective, a very sound and stable educational setting (yay for private school!) and at least one forgeign holiday a year. We may not have a had a great time as kids, but I know a hell of a lot of people who had a far worse one. These things only fuck you up in the head if you allow them to......

(Incidentally, the foreign holidays - to places like Kenya etc - often gave me the same feeling too.)

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