What was the worst injury your parents ever gave you?

[Taverner]

Strangely enough, the worst injury I ever got was from my mom. Yeah, dad swung at us - and often missed. I never asked him whether he pulled his punches or not - I don't think I want to know. But when he did connect, it would shake us up but not leave a lasting mark.

My mom, however, was never skilled in the art of not leaving a mark. She almost never hit us, but the one time she did, she took a coat hanger (plastic, not wire:) ) and whacked me across the face, leaving a bruise in the shape of a coat hanger.

She was apologetic afterwards, but that mark stayed for a good week or two before going away.

[LaurenG]

1. My dad knocked me loopy when I was around 10 by punching me in the face

but he also beat us until our legs bled anytime he lost his temper. It's a toss up.

[Taverner]

2. Jesus...that's fucked up

[LaurenG]

3. It's OK - I didn't mean to put such a damper on your thread.

I ran away forever when I was 16, after that he couldn't touch me anymore.

[Taverner]

4. That's good

No, I'm glad you shared that

If there's one thing my abuse taught me, it's that you should NEVER raise your hand to a kid. I don't even spank.

[nolabear]

5. God what a sad thread. But...

I bled.

One of the saddest things I have ever heard, to get off of me, was when I worked in a children's prison (therapy) and once asked a group of girls what they were afraid of, as in what gave them nightmares. The consensus was electrical cords. People don't wear balts so much any more so electrical cords.

Damn.

[Taverner]

6. I knew a kid in elementary school who had bruises from being beaten by wire

Not insulated wire, but metal wire

This was in the days before Mandated Reporting

[LynneSin]

7. Low Self-Esteem?

:D

[RebelOne]

8. When I was 15, I would occasionally sneak a cigarette in my bedroom.

My mother walked in and saw me. I threw it under the bed. She picked up a curtain rod that had a jagged edge and hit me with it several times. One hit ripped my leg open. I still have the scar to this day. She wasn't upset that I was smoking, but that I threw it under the bed. She was afraid it would set the house on fire.

[Taverner]

9. Why didn't she beat the cigarette instead of you??

Ow...

[RebelOne]

22. I was a bigger target n/t

[sinkingfeeling]

10. Neither parent ever hit me on purpose.

[KamaAina]

11. Mom once broke a wooden spoon over my tiny little behind

That pretty much put her off of corporal punishment for good. For decades thereafter, I could get a cheap laugh out of her by pretending to cringe at the sight of a wooden spoon. :-)

[REP]

12. My father cut my cornea open on his watch crown when I was 18 mos old

It wasn't an abrasion, but a laceration. I remember the emergency room and debridement - as frightening images and pain, of course; it was only much later I was told what happened - and still fear eye exams like most people fear dentists, even though I'm in my 40s now.

About that same age I started dislocating my elbows and shoulders. My parents thought they were doing something wrong, but I just have something very wrong with my joints (those joints are now almost completely ruined).

[kimi]

13. The usual welts from belts and such were the worst physical marks

My dad used his belt, I still sort of cringe watching someone take a belt off, it's sort of instinct. My mom had this folding yardstick, the inch and foot markings were almost worn off by the time my brother and I reached adolescence.

But the emotional scars from what I've repressed are probably the worst overall.

[dana_b]

14. spatula marks on my ass

my parents liked the ones with holes in them - they sting more.

It could have been worse. My grandmother beat my uncle with a cast iron skillet. :wow:

[graywarrior]

15. Passing on their "isms".

[Islandlife]

16. My circumcision scar, but I don't hold it against them

Actually glad it happened then and not later. The timing was right.

[hunter]

17. tHE cRaZY

33% Inherited, my family tree is full of nuts

33% Nurture (My mom was too crazy for the Jehovah's Witness's if you can imagine that...)

33% Industrial toxins (nuclear weapons testing fallout, leaded gasoline and paints, insecticides that have since been banned, mercury, arsenic, coal tar... etc.)

But I suppose these childhood scars and genetic defects are balanced out by my superpowers.

Sadly, I was expelled from Professor Charles Francis Xavier's prestigious school "simply because you are so goddamned annoying, Hunter," quoting Professor X himself. And he looked just like this when he said it:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professor_X

Pretty much the same reasons I got kicked out of ordinary college, twice.

[rbnyc]

18. Is PTSD an injury? (nt)

[Danger Mouse]

19. No physcial scars, but emotional ones...i still remember some of the stuff my mother and step-dad...

used to say to me...

[handmade34]

20. my response too

serious emotional scars that took about 30 years to heal... often thought I would rather have the physical ones?

[EFerrari]

29. My mother checked out with alcohol from the time I was 11

until I was 19. She was a single parent and that made me the adult in the house for most of that time. I thought I'd forgiven her years ago but now that she's having some cognitive impairment, I find I'm getting triggered by her behavior all over again.

[LaraMN]

21. My dad would never have touched a hair on my sister or I,

but I have a real fond memory of my mom punching me in the back of the neck while I sat at our computer working on a term paper I'd just lost two weeks of work on. I wouldn't stop working on my paper when my little sister asked me for help with something, so my mom got mad . I couldn't wait to leave home. Had nearly everything I owned packed up about two months before I left for college, knowing that whatever happened in my life, I could never live at home again. I have my mom's anger issues, but at least I don't take them out on my kids.

[JackDragna]

23. Making me exist.

:)

[givemebackmycountry]

24. Well, I have a couple of stories...not sure I'm ready but I'm OK.

Anyone know what a "Cat O' nine tails" is?
My Mom made one and beat me with it she was so mad at me.
I have let it go and she's my best friend now, and I chalk it up to a few different things.

I guess things were different in the 60's and even more so in the 40's when she came up.
I'm not making excuses, I turned out to be a tough son of a bitch, so maybe I'm thankful.
Somehow, someway.

I have never hit a woman, and I have never hit a child, and no I do not want a cookie.
I'm just a quick learner.

[nolabear]

25. Whoof.

[Brother Buzz]

26. The fucking trip to Disneyland in 1956

EVERYONE got Mickey Mouse ears but be. My parents saddled me with a cute little Donald Duck squeaker bill cap. Everyone insisted on squeaking the damn thing and laughing at me all day long. Nobody watched the Mickey Mouse club wearing a fucking Donald Duck cap, and I was stuck with it.

To this day, I have a strong aversion the squeaking toys.

[some guy]

27. I think I got spanked

a few times. I'm pretty sure each time it stung. I'm sure none of them left any marks that lasted more than 5 minutes.

[csziggy]

28. Guilt

The one time Mom ever wanted to spank me, she grabbed me, threw me across her lap, lifted her arm for a good whack, swung down, and cracked her wrist against the arm of the wooden chair she was sitting in. She didn't break any bones but she got a huge bruise and her wrist was swollen and sore long past when we had both forgotten what the spanking was for. I felt so guilty that I never did whatever it was again and was a very good little girl for the rest of that summer.

Mom never tried to spank me again, but neither of my parents really believed in corporal punishment. I had just pushed her to her limits and she kind of lost it that day. I don't remember any spankings from Dad - all he had to do was to give that *LOOK* and we knew we'd better straighten up or there would be hell to pay.

[blueamy66]

30. dupe

sorry

[blueamy66]

31. Ivory soap, in the mouth....

no marks left.....I deserved it

[applegrove]

32. Back when you spanked your kids my mom used to rap my palms with a slipper with a wooden sole.

It hurt but never left a bruise.