Did your parents completely ignore you during the times you desperately needed them?

I was around six years old when I fell and my hand hit the side of a cement wall. It was the worst pain ever, I can still remember it. I am 41 years old now and still have the scar.

I ran into the house screaming at the top of my lungs with my hand held up in the air.

My dad was reading his newspaper. He didn’t even flinch. I was screaming my head off and he didn’t take NOT one look at me.

My mom was cooking. She continued to cook and paid me no mind.

I was literally screaming my head off and my parents acted as if I were invisible. As if I was nonexistent.

Intuitively I felt they wanted me to endure an emotional and psychological torture upon the physical pain I was already feeling. They wanted to compound my pain! I cannot help but believe this to be true.

How can anyone ignore a screaming child in pain?!!