Troubled past may very well lead to a troubled present. I can, maybe not fully, relate to your experience of past. Elementary life and part of secondary life, learning they call it, spent alone, teased, outcast, demoralized.
Those experiences only desensitized me to the grand negativity of all things. Leaving me with a severely underdeveloped skill at accepting and delivering complementary comments. Cheers.
No detail required. Understood.
Glass half empty you say: Pessimist, I am as well. Trying to change.
False or truth: An open question. No correct or incorrect response. I, at times, enjoy making others simply think.