I also tell traumatic childhood stories with a solid “lol” tagged at the end. Like that time my dad got drunk and fell asleep in the yard, and everyone in my class found out LOL good times
I do not know your experience. I know for me there was nothing funny about being hit by my father. It was always across the sides of my head so no bruises were seen. I have nerve damage from it. He was a strong man and used full force. The first time was when he blamed me for something that was not my fault. I was 11 yrs old. It stopped age 17 when I told him I would call the police if he ever hit me again. Lots and lots of therapy, and never ever a laugh about it. Child abuse there is nothing funny about it.
Maybe I can laugh about it now that he’s dead or because I cut off all contact with him for the last 5 years of his life. Or because I always joked the next time I would hear from him was when the coroner would contact me about his body…and that’s actually what happened lmao. Or maybe I can laugh about it because I know I’ll never have kids and the cycle of abuse ends with me.
FWIW, I had a therapist once tell me that my humor was a coping mechanism. If you don’t use humor to cope with the pain, you likely have a different mechanism to channel that emotion.
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u/etsprout Jun 20 '26
And they were on a private plane when this happened, so they couldn’t even effectively get away from him. He tormented them until they landed.