Being an Artistic Child

i'm dealing with finding out that i'm artistic. Is challenging my sense of self and myself, my sense of identity. In particular, it's having to reappraise my past, my experience of school. I was very heavily ded in school, very heavily from the youngest age possible. And this happened at all points of my education,. From play school to primary school to secondary school. At all points i was punished heavily by teachers and by the system itself. Now i realize that my education was effectively fock and stolen from me by successive generations of adults who should have flagged something aint right.