well you will have no way of knowing if these "anecdotes" are real or not. There are plenty of us who have suffered real injury as children at the hands of Catholic school teachers and I'm one of them. Not being Catholic at a Catholic school was no picnic, believe me.
I also have friends in HongKong who were beaten with bamboo canes for being Chinese and Buddhist, but their parents sent them to private Catholic schools for the English. I don't know where you want to draw the line.
Your presumed "abuse" on these threads is mostly your imagination. Having survived really abusive threads re other subjects, I do know what I'm talking about. Some here, even the owner of the site, is skewered on a daily basis on other websites, subjected to the most repulsive and often obscene ridicule.
Starting a thread on supposed psychological disorders of posters I contend, is akin to what happens on these other sites and is character defamation, isn't it?
I am interested in the phenomenon of the people who complain of such misdeeds turning around and doing the same thing, AND, especially, in the way people use what they claim is an evangelical call or duty or some-such to intentionally provoke and insult others, and also to be content with attacking some lie about the people they disparage rather than addressing the truth.
To develop the last point, there are ample opportunities, some even in FR, to find out the real notion that Catholics have about Church and denomination, and about, say, the necessity (if any) of Baptism, and a lot of other things.
But what I frequently see is people insisting that I believe what I do not in fact believe, and that I do what I do not do, and then attacking me for it and seeming to choose to be impervious to any new information about Catholic Faith and Practice.
And then this is justified, as it seems, by a claimed similarity to a paternal beating given to a wayward son.
I am interested in communication. So I am always interested when people want to engage in verbal exchanges but seem not to want to communicate. Abuses in Church related schools (the antisemitism I saw at one sort of vaguely New England Congregationalist/Unitarian prep school would curl your hair!) is a grave evil. I just don't find it an interesting evil.
Hubby went to Catholic school for a while and you didn’t mess with the Brothers there. More than once a Brother would punch a kid in the nose for misbehaving. Of course, he only had to do it once (smile).
Do I hear “you all everybody...” in the background ?