Tadd had a traumatic childhood that he never thought he could recover from. Then, he discovered live action role play. Via insightSBS
Watch Insight's episode Lost Boys on Tuesday, 2 May from 8:30pm on SBS orI was in my first few years of primary school when I was brought to the front of the classroom by my teacher and forced to repeat to the class that ‘I would never amount to anything more than a class clown, and that I was a silly little boy’. Then I was whacked in the back of the head with a rolled-up newspaper. All this for talking out of turn, yet again.
My childhood was pretty typical for many men in Australia. I grew up in a military household. My dad worked long hours and was posted every few years, which saw me attend three different primary schools. Because of my transient relationships with people, I learned how to make friends quickly and adapted my humour as my main way of relating to others.It wasn’t until high school that my life really began to unravel.
Since then, it has been an incredibly arduous road. Depression and anxiety are things you learn to manage, not something that you one day ‘get over’. In the process of trying to rebuild my life and find myself, I created Battlecry.
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