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You were a child. Go easy on yourself.
I mostly do. I hope that the people on the receiving end don't give a shit and have no issues with their childhood experiences in adulthood.
A few years back somebody I went to school with contacted me on Facebook and apologised for bullying me. I actually have no recollection of this guy being a dick to me at all but clearly something weighed on his mind that hasn't weighed on mine.
There are a couple of things I did when I was a kid that sometimes keep me awake at night. The thought has crossed my mind to contact those involved and front up about what I did and why but who is that serving, me or them? Best just to leave it in the past I think.
Stonehedge
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You were a child. Go easy on yourself. In my experience the racist and sexist and sexist sterotypes and jokes that knocked around school weren't (I think) born of a particular hostility, although the effect was probably much the same, rather it was just a case of not really knowing a wide variety of people and not hearing about how these attitudes affected them.