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12 Apr 2023, 2:53 pm

IsabellaLinton wrote:

I went so far as to see a hypnotist to try and remember ... problematic stuff from that age in my life.

There's a very questionable story about something that happened to me in my grandfather's care.

Yeah maybe hypnosis might help. I can remember quite a lot of it tbh. I can remember what she looked like. She had a small child with her as well. He was older than me but still young. It was raining. I was lying on her sofa and the little boy was looking at me smiling. They both had blonde hair.

I've always clung onto this memory but I've never been able to talk about it because I was told not to.

I really don't think the woman hurt me. My concern is more to do with my mother (yet again) putting me into a potentially dangerous situation.

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12 Apr 2023, 3:03 pm

If there was another child there it might have been a play date.

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12 Apr 2023, 3:06 pm

Mightve been a play date.

But your parents didnt want you to "speak of it"?

Head scratcher.

I assume both of your parents are gone now. Do you have any older siblings who might recall it?

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12 Apr 2023, 3:12 pm

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If there was another child there it might have been a play date.

Possibly. Its just a mystery to me.

Sometimes it's easy to think the worst but it could have been as innocent as that.

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12 Apr 2023, 3:14 pm

Maybe your mum would have got in trouble for sending you at such a young age for a playdate so you weren't supposed to report it. Hoping it was innocent as you say.

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12 Apr 2023, 3:15 pm

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Mightve been a play date.

But your parents didnt want you to "speak of it"?

Head scratcher.

I assume both of your parents are gone now. Do you have any older siblings who might recall it?

My dad wouldn't have known because I was taken from my mother's place of work and my dad's dead now. My siblings wouldn't have known either because they weren't there and I can't ever remember talking about it apart from with my mother. I have zero contact with my mother and I don't know where my siblings are.

It's like a puzzle.

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12 Apr 2023, 3:18 pm

IsabellaLinton wrote:

Maybe your mum would have got in trouble for sending you at such a young age for a playdate so you weren't supposed to report it. Hoping it was innocent as you say.

I'm thinking she defo would have got fired from her job as the woman she let me go with was a client of hers and it would have been seen as inappropriate.

Maybe we've nailed it guys.

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12 Apr 2023, 3:23 pm

My mother used to send me to a family down the street for playdates because their child was 'disturbed'.
It was terrifying.

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12 Apr 2023, 3:25 pm

Well, your mother is disturbed Raleigh. Good thing you aren't.

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12 Apr 2023, 3:26 pm

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My mother used to send me to a family down the street for playdates because their child was 'disturbed'.

It was terrifying.

Sorry about that.

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12 Apr 2023, 3:32 pm

^ me too, but i think sending kids by themselves to strangers' houses used to be a thing.

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12 Apr 2023, 3:41 pm

I'm one to talk. I likely spent a lot of time on strangers' boats. The adults would all dock wherever they were having a party and throw all the kids on one boat, or even put us on the boat with the most beds, while they had barbecues and got shit-faced on land. Um.

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12 Apr 2023, 4:38 pm

Yeah strange times. Thank you all for your help with this.

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12 Apr 2023, 11:09 pm

babybird wrote:

Just wanna know what people's opinions are on this. Just say what you feel. No judgement.

If you was a parent of a 2 or 3 year old child would you let them go somewhere with a complete stranger? I'm talking about a trip on a bus and to that person's house but neither you or your child know the person.

I'm struggling with this because I just can't see how it would be acceptable but I know that it has happened.

I just can't believe my life sometimes.

That seems odd. It isn't unheard of for employees of airlines to chaperone children from one airport to another, but never to a private residence.

I do suspect that there is something more to the store, or else it's not just a no, it's a hell no.

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12 Apr 2023, 11:10 pm

Raleigh wrote:

^ me too, but i think sending kids by themselves to strangers' houses used to be a thing.

IIRC, sending children via the mail also was a thing. It's amazing that anybody survived to have the current generation of children.

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13 Apr 2023, 3:34 am

^That's mad.

Like I said it wasn't an altogether unpleasant experience and it's probably one of my nicer memories to be honest but it's shrouded by this secrecy thing that makes it seem sinister.

I'm really grateful for all of your help with this people.

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