I feel like this needs being said. I didn't even realize it wasn't normal, either

I cant stand silence. Like if someone goes too long without talking to me or smiling i think theyre pissed at me.

Me: Hey.
Friend: *smiles, then silence*
Me: Are you mad at me? Did I say hi too angrily? Are you just in a bad moo-
Friend: I'm fine.
Me: *thinking* He fucking hates me

let it be known that the first guy's blog name is ericfvkingharris which means they're probably a columbine sympathizer

So, an abusive household is that for you ? When there's silence and small stuff like that ?
Fucking hell

I grew up in an abusive family and I still live there since I'm not old enough to legally move out. I don't understand the laundry and sock ones, but the sigh and grocery thing I get. If someone sighs angrily or if I hear someone yell or glass shattering, my heart goes about 400 miles an hour. It really, really sucks and none of my friends understand.

I want to cry whenever someone flinches when I move too fast

I read through the comments and I can see some people turning this into a competition almost so I wanted to try to stop anything before a shit storm happens. Abuse doesn't have to be intense violence, in fact I think what this post is talking about is the 'triggers' before the abuse. These triggers of course vary in each abusive household, so for him it could be someone in a bad mood washing a dish, this could be a sign that something worse is going to take place. Any abuse is horrible and there are multiple psychological effects that occur afterward for the rest of the victims life, if any of you know or are in a situation like this you need to seek help immediately, even here's a start but of course you could be afraid.
You probably won't read this all but the last thing I want to happen is people abusing EACH OTHER over the abuse they may receive themselves. I'm no professional but I can try to help anyone if they need someone to talk to.

I feel so sorry for the last guy, his username makes you understand his situation

This fucking needs to stop. There are people who live in homes where their parents hit them.

The phrase "we need to talk" or anything akin to that growing up with emotional abuse makes my anxiety go to the roof and my chest to the floor. I totally relate to this in terms of emotional abuse effects when I face challenges or fail and just general tasks and school. Its so horrible, it really is a trip to watch other people not react a certain way to things or do/say things nonchalantly that you never could.

Remembers me in university. A guy raised a hand to highfive me and I automatically protected my head under my arm, shivering. I stayed like that for five long seconds before realizing what the situation was, and he was puzzled af.

I didn't even realize I do this, overreacting to what others do, feeling I've done something wrong or I'm going to be punished just for the way someone else feels even though i dont deserve it.

I can totally relate. I wasn't physically abused as a kid, just constantly yelled at. When someone is yelling at you while multitasking, cabinets get slammed or bags get set down to hard. And the socks too. I am 30 years old, even now if I hear a cabinet get closed loudly, I think they are mad and ask whats wrong

What about, " you better stop that crying or I'll give you something to cry about!" After she just did and that's why you're crying? Anybody else?

And my mom shook me. It's truly terrifying because you can't do anything to tense up, It's out of control movement that bc of momentum you're going backwards and then snap forward, back of your skull hits your brain as it's being yanked back up it hurts so bad.
I was scared of ALL people until I was 25 years old because I thought they would hurt me. and slowly it dawned on me that everybody isn't going to hit me if I make them angry.
But almost as damaging is when she told me she was going unadopt me because I lied cuz I was scared of her. I'm 52 years old
And just last year I realized, " wait she punished me for lying, by lying to me?!"
Tell you one thing though: I broke the cycle and I didn't teach my kid to deal with what bothers them through physical aggression.

What the hell kind of abuse has anything to do with folding laundry, or setting bags down?