Yes, I've grown up with it. It feels like I've been self injuring forever, even though I haven't.
I'm almost 20. I started burning when I was 16, cutting when I was 11. But before that I would do things like throw myself into walls and pick at my wounds. I have lots of wounds, accidental and not, from over the years, and I have never let any of them heal on their own. So if you count wound interference, I've been doing it at least since I was 3.
The past doesn't dictate the future, I don't think that self injury has to be a life-long thing for me. It is just a very hard habit to break and not one that I have any desire to break at the time being.
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