What if their choices affected what I did after I was born?

[He says 'did', but he's actually thinking 'what he was'. Is a child actually held responsible for allowing the authority figures in its life to dictate its actions? Was it possible to have grown up different than he had if he had exhibited more self-assertiveness? Even if he had been effectively kicked down the one time he had attempted to assert himself as a person, perhaps it had been wrong to allow that to affect his following years. He wasn't sure.]

When a child is deprived of the choice to make his own choices...what then?