Shattered. Not an excuse, just another example.
Wounds that time won't heal
https://www.dana.org/article/wounds-that-time-wont-heal/
" … early maltreatment, even exclusively psychological abuse, has enduring negative effects on brain development. We see specific kinds of brain abnormalities in psychiatric patients who were abused as children. We are also beginning to understand how these abnormalities may account directly for the personality traits and other symptoms that patients manifest."
https://childhoodtraumarecoverydotcom2.wordpress.com/2013/10/13/arrested-psychological-development-and-age-regression/
"One of the main traumas a child can suffer is a problematic early relationship with the primary care- giver; these problems can include the primary care-giver having a mental illness, abusing alcohol/drugs, or otherwise abusing or abandoning the child. In such cases, attachment disorder is likely to occur in the child – this disorder can impair or even cripple a child’s ability to trust and bond with others. In such cases, it is the child’s ability to attach to other human beings which is impaired by developmental delays.
Since such a child’s development has essentially become frozen in relation to his/her ability to bond with others…"
These kids were intentionally destroyed. "They" sought to use their 'stars' to alter our standards of normalcy. Or, as a wiser person has said: "defining deviancy down."