What’s something traumatizing that your Mom said to you as a child that you still remember?

I used to hate to go to bed and would stand next to the bed but refused to get in it, so my mom would tell me that there were monsters under my bed that would grab my ankles and drag me under the bed and kill me. To this day, when I stand next to my bed, for a second or two I wonder if there’s a monster underneath.

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DreamyCrush · F

My mother was far from nurturing. She often called my sister and I 'Dummy', she told others [at a party] that I couldn't dance (while watching me on the dance floor), she would always ask boyfriends we allowed her to meet "Why do you like her?" She even told me that I BETTER like one of her boyfriends. Anytime I had my hair braided, or wore hair extensions of any kind, she called it 'dog hair', so to this day I avoid her when wearing those hairstyles. WTF? Just awful.