Is it normal my parents did nothing about my extreme cruelty to animals?

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As a child, I was extraordinarily cruel to animals. The first incidents I recall I was about 5 and it continued and got worse right through my teens to adulthood.

I got found out so many times so I know they were well aware. They caught me torturing animals and they caught me killing animals and they found several of my kills.

The few times they ever said anything to me, it was basically "why would you do that?" as a rhetorical question, a crack at shaming me perhaps. I think my dad said "that ain't right" once. He freed a cat I was about to hang and said "I'm not going to let you do this". I had a tally on a piece of paper of how many cats I had killed and my dad took it and threw it out but didn't say a word about it. The only reason he knew about it was because I hung it on the refrigerator. That's it though for any intervention.

I'm not cruel to animals anymore in general but I can be under the right circumstances. I have to have a more substantial reason now while as a child I'd do it all the time indiscriminately. A substantial reason for me would be NO reason to a normal person, I'm sure.

Needless to say I have some serious psychological problems but I think that my parents indifference really exacerbated my condition.

I find it odd that they knew the seriousness of what I was doing, and then the other anti-social behavior that came as a teen, and they did nothing. They pushed hard to get me out of their house before I was 18 but not to get any treatment. IS it normal?

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  • noid
    11 years ago | pl

    No it's not normal. And I really hope you don't own any animals.

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    • Justsomejerk
      11 years ago

      He doesn't.............anymore.

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      • Anonymous Post Author
        11 years ago

        I'm not a "he".

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        • Justsomejerk
          11 years ago

          Typo

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          • [Old Memory]
            11 years ago

            Hehe

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  • BlueJeansWhiteShirt
    11 years ago

    I feel sick.

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  • SangoNyappy
    11 years ago

    If I ever had a kid and did something like this I'd probably shoot it.

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  • [Old Memory]
    11 years ago

    I have a good idea why they may not have cared. Perhaps your lack of sympathy and remorse is genetic and your parents are just like you and simply didn't care. They probablly just didn't see anything that wrong with your actions even though they probablly knew it was wrong by societys standareds, and let your behaviour get worse.

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  • 1000yrVampireKing
    11 years ago

    Should have sent you to a therapist.

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    • [Old Memory]
      11 years ago

      They should also have gone to therapy themselves to learn how to become better parents. So many parents expect things to magically change for the child without any effort or change on their part.

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      • 1000yrVampireKing
        11 years ago

        That is a good point. However they should have noticed something when mutilating animals. If a parent really does nothing in this case that is not right. Parent will report children for anything yet not something like this? That is just ridiculous. Should have done something not just ignore it.

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  • GreyWulfen
    11 years ago

    This is kinda sick. Really.
    Your parenting must've been really fucked up to grow such habits as killing animals.

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  • Fabulous
    11 years ago

    Well just have sex

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  • Sara0303
    7 years ago

    As long as it was only cats, cats are worthless vermin

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  • SHAKEStheClown
    10 years ago

    Just out of curiosity what would be a "substantial reason" for you to torture an animal?

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  • Rare
    11 years ago

    It's one of the earliest signs a psychopath displays.

    I would tell you off -I'd put you up for adoption.

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  • Ultim1G
    11 years ago

    No dude, it's so completely normal. I remember my days of stringing up cats and hanging them to the ceiling and watching them dangle like ragdolls. Fun times.

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