I regarded this as merely an odd thing that happened. But the older I get, the more I think about it and what long-term effect that trauma (and it was trauma) had. Trauma occurs when something happens that’s too horrible for your brain to deal with, so you just store it away. Over time, the horrible thing, which is still there, starts coming out in a variety of ugly ways, causing mental problems that you don’t even associate with the trauma because it happened so long ago.
