I know it says these outcomes are independent of other adverse childhood experiences, but I wonder if it really is as much worse as it feels when the parent responsible for your other ACEs is your childhood bully.
To say we didn't get a long well in my family is a massive understatement. As a result I think I became what at least some would consider a bully. I carry tremendous guilt as a result for the way I treated others but in a perverse way I'm sort of glad because the flak my peers were able to hurl my way was literal childsplay compared with the professional-grade emotional manipulation and torture I endured at home.
