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Statements or responses that I carried with me from a child into adulthood:
– Why can’t you just …
– Shh! // Shut up
– Don’t be so sensitive // You’re too sensitive
– You ought to …
– Whatever
– I’m disappointed in you …
– I thought you were smarter than that
– I’ll beat you to death!
– You will struggle when you’re older
– Stop behaving like that
– You don’t know what it’s like to struggle
– You’re a kid- you don’t understand anything
Add to the list with a comment.
Signed,
deathbycoffee
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What did you say before receiving these responses?
Things I heard a lot growing up:
• What is everyone else going to think about you?
• Stop crying! What will you do when you’re grown up?
• Quit being such a sissy
You can’t get anyone to agree to our monetized waste of time, that pretends to be a civilization, without traumatizing and gaslighting people into accepting it.
When my folks told me “You don’t know what it is like to struggle.” in later teen years, my reply was something of: “It gets worse? You knew it was this bad and still decided to have a kid?”
When parents make a crime of someone being human it really does beg this kind of question. Thankfully my folks did come round when financial difficulty for all of us threw them from their high horses. Though from the other end they fell, they felt the hopelessness of our generation and those comments were shut fast.
“You don’t know what it is like to struggle.” in later teen years, my reply was something of: “It gets worse? You knew it was this bad and still decided to have a kid?”
–>Exactly. WE are the ones who have to live with THEIR selfish/careless actions. -_-
Well, at least your parents never told you “we found you in the garbage” like they said to me. -_-