Yes, hello, mental hospital?

Yeah, hi.

I wanted to see if I could reserve the family suite.

My name is Andrea, and this is adult child.

Welcome back to adult child.

We take a deep dive into the impact of growing up in a dysfunctional family.

For any new listeners, I am Andrea, and I am the resident shit show around here.

I'm an adult child, I'm a recovering alcoholic.

You should be very grateful I don't drink anymore.

And if your name is Brian, and you have a drinking problem,

well then there is a high probability that I would love to date you.

So today you're in for a damn treat, and I know that I say that often.

But I think I'm serving up a lot of damn treats to y'all today included.

So today I am joined by four siblings, and we are getting into their dysfunctional upbringing.

So we've talked about how siblings can grow up in the same family, in the same home,

yet have vastly different perspectives, vastly different experiences,

impacted in vastly different ways.

So today I would say that of these four siblings,

their perspectives on their childhood is pretty similar.

Some remember certain details while others don't.

But they definitely all agree that it was fucked up.

And the way though that it is shaped their lives that has impacted them does differ.

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