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People talk about childhood like it was automatically the happiest time of life. Like we all secretly want to go back there because life was easier then. And I get why people say that. For a lot of people, childhood probably did feel safe and uncomplicated. But that has never been true for everyone. Some of us spent childhood learning how to explain things we were too young to even understand ourselves. I was six when my parents got divorced, and in a place where divorce was uncommon, I became very aware very early that my life looked different from everyone else’s. I remember the discomfort of people asking questions, the pauses after I answered, the feeling of having to carry something that felt too big for me at that age. I think people underestimate how deeply children experience things. Just because a child cannot fully articulate pain does not mean they are not shaped by it. Children notice everything. Tension. Absence. Shame. Silence. They absorb emotions long before they know how to name them. At the same time, I do not think difficult experiences only leave damage behind. Sometimes they shape the way we move through the world. Looking back, I can see how those experiences made me more sensitive to people’s emotions, more aware of what is left unsaid, more attentive to pain that others might overlook. In many ways, it shaped the person and psychologist I became. And maybe that is why I feel conflicted when people romanticize childhood as if it is one universal experience. For some people, childhood was joy and safety. For others, it was confusion, loneliness, responsibility, or learning how to emotionally survive much earlier than they should have had to. Childhood is not one thing. It can hold warmth and grief at the same time. And I think more people carry difficult childhood memories quietly than we realize.

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This post was published on 14th May, 2026 by Ammu on her Instagram handle "@keepitstylish_by_ammu (Ammu Varghese🐠)". Ammu has total 93.5K followers on Instagram and has a total of 1.5K post.This post has received 266 Likes which are lower than the average likes that Ammu gets. Ammu receives an average engagement rate of 1.82% per post on Instagram. This post has received 47 comments which are greater than the average comments that Ammu gets. Overall the engagement rate for this post was lower than the average for the profile.