Why I struggle to trust myself

Content Warning: childhood trauma, domestic abuse, gaslighting After much self-reflection, I think I figured out what specifically traumatised me about my grandparents, to the point I became mute around them and started speaking in a soft whisper to everyone else. My grandparents took care of me in my early childhood while my parents were at work. When my parents weren’t around, I witnessed my grandfather abusing my grandmother. But in front of other people, my grandfather presented himself a...