That ended with me finally explaining to him how the way he and my mother treated me as a child, with undiagnosed (and really not even conceptually understood at the time) ADHD caused me lasting trauma that persists to this day. I’m a 45 year old man, and I cried.
How did he respond?
At the end he looked abashed.
Sometimes we have no words, I guess
It didn’t last long
🫂 I’m sorry, friend.