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I didn't really get a normal childhood.

I didn't have a normal childhood by any means.

While I didn't have everything that I wanted, I was still a happy kid.

The happy childhood is hardly worth your while.

I think it's not inaccurate to say that I had a perfectly happy childhood during which I was very unhappy.

If you had an essentially happy childhood, that tends to dwell with you.

I was never happy, and neither were many of my friends. We were just normal kids that were not so excellent at what society wanted from us at that time.