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mind the walrus posted:I'd get my parents to stop overpraising me like a puppy they just can't believe is learning to talk and read, and actually get involved in talking to me about growing up. counterfeitsaint posted:I wish they would have challenged me more. Make me actually try and achieve something instead of praising my participation award and telling me I'm the smartest special snowflake ever and letting me go play video games all day in my room. It probably wouldn't have worked and it's not really their fault, but who knows? Same. How about some direction in life rather than just waiting for the day when you can have another drinking buddy? There's no point praising me and telling me I can do whatever I put my mind to if my mind is blank. And don't then loving tell me in my 20s that I should go to bars to get a better job because I never know who I might meet. (While we're at it please also stop using introvert as a slur) Doesn't matter how much I get along with someone if I don't have worthwhile skills. Not that you would know that; you didn't even know what I studied in university. But don't let stop you from insisting I go to my graduation so you can feel proud. Plenty of people wish their parents hadnt been so pushy but too far in the other direction is also bad. I also sometimes wish I had broken ties with my mum as a teenager. Seems cruel to do it now. mind the walrus posted:Or at the very least better treatment for it earlier on. If someone had caught my ever-so-slightly atypical autism and took my very early onset depressive symptoms seriously I could have gotten my poo poo together much, much sooner. Same again I think. My dad paid lip service to taking mental health seriously and insisted I be open with him if I had problems but when I told him that I didn't want to do anything in life he said I should throw myself under a bus.
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