These are causes, not excuses

There is a difference between explaining a thing and excusing it, and parents who shout tend to refuse the first in case it looks like the second.

You can hold both. What you did was yours. And it happened on a Thursday rather than a Sunday, at half past seven rather than at eleven, after four hours of sleep rather than seven, and those facts are not decoration.

Five things feed it. None of them is your character.