Theory: people with a happy childhood don't 'get it'.

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I agree with the idea that having it too easy can lead to an inability to understand hard times in someone else's life, but also if a person has it too hard their POV can become "no one helped or gave a sh** about me when I had it bad, so why so why should I care about or make sacrifices for anyone else's problems?" I think that's especially true of people who eventually "made it" against a lot of hardship. It's kind of bitter, but hard to argue against IMO (maybe they've earned the right not to care).

It seems like the way that things are gets reinforced. If there's generally no help then people won't be in favor of it because they didn't get it, and if there is help that it will appreciated and supported.

Nowadays I know better than get closer to people who had happy childhoods. Those could never understand my life, nor what it's like to come from a home like mine with a neurology like mine - let alone be useful to me in any way with support and/or advice and/or sharing of life experience.

They're also very bad on my self-esteem because, rather than value my achievements against all odds, they compare them to the achievements of those who were born with a silver spoon in their mouths and a big portion of their achievements already done for them.

Some people have feigned having had a difficult childhood because they wanted to become my friends. I believed them, being the naive aspie I am, and the results were very bad of course. Nowadays I perform a more thorough background check before I lower my guard.

Yes, I have found this with quite a few people

I had a relatively happy childhood and good parents but it is obvious that few can appreciate how bad it feels to be mass bullied and excluded for 2 years straight and the damage it causes. I rarely talk to anyone about it anymore because the usual response is "everyone gets bullied" which just makes me want to lose it! I've only ever known one person who even came close to what I had to go through and looking back, I didn't stand a chance: very self-focused (so I was considered a snob), not a girl or disabled (so it's wasn't 'cowardly' to witch hunt me), very slow to develop as well as by far the youngest (didn't 'get' it) and tall and lanky (so I was seen as a 'threat' to alphas) and found it painful to keep my shoulders and head up due to massive growth spurt (so I was seen as 'weak'). It especially gets me irate thinking about the lame advice given by experts. They literally don't get it.

So, to get back on topic unless you have been targeted you have no idea what its like especially at that age. Furthermore, it's like being in a prison cell and the guards are turning a blind eye. What are you supposed to do? Call 911? I had a classmate who was black and when he 'whined' about racism I kept telling him it wasn't that bad. Looking back, it was obvious that I had NO IDEA what it was like because I never had to shield myself from racial discrimination.

I have very loving parents, but we had several traumatic family events, whilst I was growing up (cousin was murdered, aunt and uncle died, leaving my cousin an orphan and having to come to stay with us, bipolar auntie having manic episodes, etc, I could go on). That coupled with the mass shunning and being picked on constantly makes for a less than happy childhood. Although, I can appreciate that I could have had it much worse (I could have been my orphaned cousin, for example). Really, nothing phases me these days. So, when I hear people are worrying about things that haven't even happened yet, I feel like slapping them. I don't, of course.