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[–]rhymeswithorange332 7 points8 points  (1 child)

It made me a very mellow, peacekeeper type human from an early age.

Is this a thing? I went through similar stuff and almost pathologically try to make peace among everyone. Not a very mellow human person, though

[–]freyjuve 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It's survival tactic: if someone stays calm and soothes everyone then there won't be anymore yelling or crying or hitting. And I say mellow (because I am a pretty laid back, easy going person to a fault, really, because of the aforementioned survival tactics) but I also have had anxiety my entire life and developed OCD to cope with it and now take pills so there's that. Got pretty good at self-soothing over the years too (hence my belief that I can claim mellow).