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Posted: 8 years ago
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As a child- I don't know. May be nothing. 9 years doesnt have sense to take any major step like take help from cops or organisation.
But after growing up, I would never become another ashwin. Maya has turned into another ashwin. That I would never do.
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Posted: 8 years ago
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Originally posted by: _IHeartFriendz_

As a child- I don't know. May be nothing. 9 years doesnt have sense to take any major step like take help from cops or organisation.

But after growing up, I would never become another ashwin. Maya has turned into another ashwin. That I would never do.


I don't think Maya has become another Ashwin by choice...Maybe her childhood abuse is responsible...Maybe the genetic composition of her brain is...
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Posted: 8 years ago
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9 years is a very young age to be abused and even if somehow Maya had gotten help; scars from the trauma would linger on even in her adulthood. Nevertheless, I believe it's never too late to ask for help, get treatment and to hope for a better life. Her father is gone; with him the miseries of her childhood but she right now has a life, a husband, a mother. Instead of giving others the punishment of her sufferings, maybe she should focus on beating her father by doing the opposite he to did to her.
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Posted: 8 years ago
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Originally posted by: _IHeartFriendz_

As a child- I don't know. May be nothing. 9 years doesnt have sense to take any major step like take help from cops or organisation.

But after growing up, I would never become another ashwin. Maya has turned into another ashwin. That I would never do.


Yes, agree with you on that. There has to be an improvement in every generation.
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Posted: 8 years ago
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@kavsy I really want to thank you for asking this question. And the reason would be my father.
My father is an abusive asshole ( pardon my language for this post). He used to beat my mom and demand money from her family although her family was in itself not in a very good financial state as compared to him. So yes very much like Ashwin but not even half of him.

I never thought i would ever say this (or write) but I really feel like telling my story coz I really relate to Maya as far as childhood trauma is concerned.

When I was about 5 years old my dad and Mom were fighting and he was thrashing her around. I swear it looked like he would kill her. I was really scared and ran to my mom saying "Papa pls mummy ko mat maro" and then he grabbed my neck and started choking me. Though he let go off me within a minute but that was it. Just this incident and i was done for.
I became a completely silent girl, and by silent I mean people could mistake me with mute TV.
A lot of people tell me that when I was really young i used to talk a lot like a chatter box. I wonder if that can really be true?? Coz I was so silent so self absorbed in my pain that I would not utter a single word no matter what!

Coming to my mom, I love her and I know that she loves me but there is a huge cliff between us. I suffered a traumatic childhood was unusually silent and scared, did not make a single friend until 9th standard, but my mom said that I had a perfect childhood and there was nothing wrong with it. She told me that she was the one who was suffering and not I. She said that I was a whining child who wants attention and nothing else. I had a perfect childhood.
My mothers' ignorance hurts like hell!!

So I think I might be just partial towards Maya.
Because I have to be honest, I did not got even 1% of what Maya suffered and this was my state.
So if I have to tell what would I have done if I was Maya, let me tell you no one can survive that torture which Ashwin and Jhanvi made her go through at such young age. And she did not survive. Maya'a soul and mind did not survived. It's merely the leftover Maya that we see.

I am posting a this coz I remember when Maya revealed to Arjun about her childhood a few posts pointed out that the possibility of this amount of trauma through only physical abuse can be inflicted is low. But I can tell by personal experiences that it was a form of physical, mental, emotional abuse and the fact that it came from her parents made it a soul abuse too.

Also a lot of people say that it is not Arjun's fault, and nothing can justify her behaviour. True, nothing can justify Maya's actions and no ones justifying it. All we are saying is that it is not out of the blue. Maya is a mental and psychological patient who needs 1)medicine 2)counselling 3)unconditional love 4)light in her life. But as of now noone and I repeat no one has ever given a single one of these to her!!!

PS: when i started writing i thought that it would be really painful to pen down but on the contrary I feel really nice. Guess in gave in all my frustration!
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Posted: 8 years ago
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^ Sad to read ur story. How is d situation wt u now?
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Posted: 8 years ago
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I guess i wud hv killed myself long long back. Maya is strong dt she survived n took over F&C. Her probms were not gone, but she was able to create an illusion of perfection.
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Posted: 8 years ago
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Originally posted by: manya_roy

@kavsy I really want to thank you for asking this question. And the reason would be my father.
My father is an abusive asshole ( pardon my language for this post). He used to beat my mom and demand money from her family although her family was in itself not in a very good financial state as compared to him. So yes very much like Ashwin but not even half of him.

I never thought i would ever say this (or write) but I really feel like telling my story coz I really relate to Maya as far as childhood trauma is concerned.

When I was about 5 years old my dad and Mom were fighting and he was thrashing her around. I swear it looked like he would kill her. I was really scared and ran to my mom saying "Papa pls mummy ko mat maro" and then he grabbed my neck and started choking me. Though he let go off me within a minute but that was it. Just this incident and i was done for.
I became a completely silent girl, and by silent I mean people could mistake me with mute TV.
A lot of people tell me that when I was really young i used to talk a lot like a chatter box. I wonder if that can really be true?? Coz I was so silent so self absorbed in my pain that I would not utter a single word no matter what!

Coming to my mom, I love her and I know that she loves me but there is a huge cliff between us. I suffered a traumatic childhood was unusually silent and scared, did not make a single friend until 9th standard, but my mom said that I had a perfect childhood and there was nothing wrong with it. She told me that she was the one who was suffering and not I. She said that I was a whining child who wants attention and nothing else. I had a perfect childhood.
My mothers' ignorance hurts like hell!!

So I think I might be just partial towards Maya.
Because I have to be honest, I did not got even 1% of what Maya suffered and this was my state.
So if I have to tell what would I have done if I was Maya, let me tell you no one can survive that torture which Ashwin and Jhanvi made her go through at such young age. And she did not survive. Maya'a soul and mind did not survived. It's merely the leftover Maya that we see.

I am posting a this coz I remember when Maya revealed to Arjun about her childhood a few posts pointed out that the possibility of this amount of trauma through only physical abuse can be inflicted is low. But I can tell by personal experiences that it was a form of physical, mental, emotional abuse and the fact that it came from her parents made it a soul abuse too.

Also a lot of people say that it is not Arjun's fault, and nothing can justify her behaviour. True, nothing can justify Maya's actions and no ones justifying it. All we are saying is that it is not out of the blue. Maya is a mental and psychological patient who needs 1)medicine 2)counselling 3)unconditional love 4)light in her life. But as of now noone and I repeat no one has ever given a single one of these to her!!!

PS: when i started writing i thought that it would be really painful to pen down but on the contrary I feel really nice. Guess in gave in all my frustration!


I appreciate your courage for sharing your experience. How are things now? In fact to say, even my past has not been all that good. I was brought up in a loveless environment. There used to be a verbal argument between mom & dad for some reason or the other. However, my dad was never like Ashwin & my mom was never like Jhanvi. I was taken care with respect to some aspects & upto some extent I have not been taken care of. My dad was in a very good position but he didn't have time for me & my brother but was only venting out his frustration that he used to have outside. But my mom had managed to bring us up. She was a strong barrier who used to fight with the whole world including my dad for us & solve our problems but at the same time, she was correcting us when we were wrong & was knocking some sense into our heads. I was a short-tempered person who does not tolerate any nonsense or take any kind of shit. When I was losing my cool I was getting violent to the extent of hitting that person but stopped that after promising my mom. So when I think about Maya (though it is fictional) I can relate my life to her. Maya has really missed those moments with her mom. Unfortunately, she is no more. I am in a good position now but I give the credit to my mom. Whatever I am today, it is because of her. But I believe that she is proud of me. My life was also related to 3 idiots movie. We have only been getting monetary help from our father but he never tried to understand any one of us. After my mom passed away, that has been a huge setback in our lives. Maya's had a different type of trauma & my trauma was different but still, I understand her pain. Trauma is a trauma.

If I was in that place, I would have told my mom that if you want to meet dad & keep him despite knowing that it will affect both of us then I cannot take these tortures. I had enough of it. I can't live like that anymore. So I am leaving. I would have packed my belongings & left the house. If I was 9-year-old Maya, I would have taken my neighbor's help & sought for the police protection. I feel bad for Maya but most of her actions cannot be justified & I am not trying to justify them. It takes a lot of courage to share your experience.
Edited by kavsy - 8 years ago
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Posted: 8 years ago
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if i had parents like jhanvi and ashwin i would have had a total mental shut down. its one thing having 1 bad parent but for both of them to be pathetic and bad is awful. to any parent to hit their child not because they want to discipline them but to hurt them is an awful thing. we have seen bits and peaces of child Maya but i want to see more of them. for Maya after the abuse of her father to end up in a powerful position and be good at its shows that kid Maya had balls of steel. i would love to see how she took control of her life and whether as a kid whether she asked for help and whether there was any one who tried to help her. i hope there was. me and my family are currently dealing with a situation where we know that our neighbour is allowing her new husband to abuse her kids emotionally, physically and sexually, there are a set of twins who are about 7/8 we could see that these kids are too thin, they look scared and they getting sworn at all the time. i was shocked and proud to find out these kids actually told their school principal what was going on and they said they were being starved. there big sister is about 11/12 and she wrote a story about a girl who was being touched inappropriately in a non English language that i have in my country. how desperate that child must have been to write a story in a language which is not your mother tongue.


this is the resilience of child who will try and save themselves from harm. they will do the most unexpected things.

but whats worse then being abused as a child is realising that your parent is just human with flaws, needs and that u are not the only thing that is important in your mother/ fathers life. that not only changes you but a part of yourself dies when u realise that your parent is not god. this is what Maya has had to face with having Jhanvi has a useless mom. for me adult maya who had to control jhanvi and her obsession for ashwin is now just like her except she is unhinged and cnt be helped at the moment. i dnt even know hw maya in her moments of sane-ness stands herself knowing she has ended up being the person who i think she hated always. she has always disdained jhanvi and now she is her. sometimes i think that maya enjoys seeing jhanvi like this helpless and lifeless coz that is how she is.


for me maya's parents have killed her until she gets proper help she is going to be soul less and obsessing ab a man. unfortunately i cant say what i would do of i had such parents coz maya is mental and there is for me a direct link btw when child maya became empowered and the maya we see now. something died and was born when she became this reckless maya
Edited by sandiab - 8 years ago
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Posted: 8 years ago
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Originally posted by: manya_roy

@kavsy I really want to thank you for asking this question. And the reason would be my father.
My father is an abusive asshole ( pardon my language for this post). He used to beat my mom and demand money from her family although her family was in itself not in a very good financial state as compared to him. So yes very much like Ashwin but not even half of him.

I never thought i would ever say this (or write) but I really feel like telling my story coz I really relate to Maya as far as childhood trauma is concerned.

When I was about 5 years old my dad and Mom were fighting and he was thrashing her around. I swear it looked like he would kill her. I was really scared and ran to my mom saying "Papa pls mummy ko mat maro" and then he grabbed my neck and started choking me. Though he let go off me within a minute but that was it. Just this incident and i was done for.
I became a completely silent girl, and by silent I mean people could mistake me with mute TV.
A lot of people tell me that when I was really young i used to talk a lot like a chatter box. I wonder if that can really be true?? Coz I was so silent so self absorbed in my pain that I would not utter a single word no matter what!

Coming to my mom, I love her and I know that she loves me but there is a huge cliff between us. I suffered a traumatic childhood was unusually silent and scared, did not make a single friend until 9th standard, but my mom said that I had a perfect childhood and there was nothing wrong with it. She told me that she was the one who was suffering and not I. She said that I was a whining child who wants attention and nothing else. I had a perfect childhood.
My mothers' ignorance hurts like hell!!

So I think I might be just partial towards Maya.
Because I have to be honest, I did not got even 1% of what Maya suffered and this was my state.
So if I have to tell what would I have done if I was Maya, let me tell you no one can survive that torture which Ashwin and Jhanvi made her go through at such young age. And she did not survive. Maya'a soul and mind did not survived. It's merely the leftover Maya that we see.

I am posting a this coz I remember when Maya revealed to Arjun about her childhood a few posts pointed out that the possibility of this amount of trauma through only physical abuse can be inflicted is low. But I can tell by personal experiences that it was a form of physical, mental, emotional abuse and the fact that it came from her parents made it a soul abuse too.

Also a lot of people say that it is not Arjun's fault, and nothing can justify her behaviour. True, nothing can justify Maya's actions and no ones justifying it. All we are saying is that it is not out of the blue. Maya is a mental and psychological patient who needs 1)medicine 2)counselling 3)unconditional love 4)light in her life. But as of now noone and I repeat no one has ever given a single one of these to her!!!

PS: when i started writing i thought that it would be really painful to pen down but on the contrary I feel really nice. Guess in gave in all my frustration!


It really hurts when one say everything was perfect in childhood and act as if nothing happened. How are you coping with it now? Thankfully, my father was never abusive. But God, my father's family. My dad used to be oversees and my mom left alone with such people. My mom went through emotional, mental, physical and sexual abuse because of them. I have seen all with my own eyes and remember all of it except that sexual abuse which I didn't see but then my sister was sexually abused by that same person which I saw with my own eyes. So that means my mom was right about the sexual abuse too. As for physical/mental/emotional abuse, I don't need to ask my mom or anyone when I have seen it myself and remember everything . But they keep denying it saying it was just my bad dream from childhood, and why do I hate them and can't be fine with them forgetting everything. Finally, they accepted the abuse now when I grew up but they still think I should be fine with them and forget all. No, I can't forget anything. I hate hate that person. I hate all of them actually but mostly that rapist and abuser. He's a pig yet he acts as the most religious person and fools everyone. My sister tells me he has changed blah blah, no I don't believe it. Such sexual and physical abusers don't change. If he had any guilt, he would've at least tried to apologize to my mom. But no, he lives like as if he never did any wrong.
My mom suffered so much for which even till today she is not in her senses and in her own world. She has so many health issues because of all the trauma and abuse she went through, and all of us sisters went through abuse and mistreatment because of not having parents after we were taken away from mom when we were just 9, so everyone thought they could do just whatever they wanted with us and get away with it. We had to survive on our own and still do with such people. I don't know, but my second sister just forget everything and has become fine with them. But me no matter how much I try or my youngest sister as well, we can't forget. I never wrote this in IF and even growing up I didn't use to tell people about what happened to my parents, etc because the way society shames and judge you and then even use you thinking you don't have parents or any brother to look after you. But in recent years, when people ask me, I just tell them because in US it's not as much a stigma as much it was in back home country. I didn't have good relations with my father for leaving my mom like that and turning blind eye to everything going on and then putting us children to ill treatmen and abuse from others because of his decision. We always had problems. But my father apologized to my mom and us before passing away, so I became more fine with him. At least, him accepting his wrongs and apologizing was such a relief for me. Pheww


That's why I love Maya. She's not completely selfless and keep kissing people's feet saying sorry even if they are keep abusing her. I wish my mom had done a little bit of manupulations or answered back like Maya. But she never did. I always had problem with my mom for that. She never answered back to any of such people and still cares them? I don't know why she's the way she is. How can one still be okay with ones abusers? Being selfless like that takes you no where. I have seen what it does. Had my mom answered back or did anything, they wouldn't have got away with so much neither she would've been at a place where shes now.
Edited by _Darling_ - 8 years ago

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