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Originally Posted by hvert
I don't know if it is a PD trait. I think it's a 'growing up in a dysfunctional family' trait, at least for me. My family wasn't normal, so I couldn't be friends with normal kids at a young age. It's really hard to cultivate healthy relationships when most of your relationships have been unhealthy. I also am not sure what's acceptable behavior and what isn't, although I have a much better idea now than I did a few years ago.
I've been a regular at places where I go more for the visiting than the shopping, lol. I'm still friends with one shop owner even though her store closed.
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And yet my family was so much more normal than other families I grew up with. This family a few houses down from us did so many things that we used to laugh about. I was friends with the daughter who was 5 years older than me. The mother must have been MI. One day she came to our house, flipped out in our driveway, crying to my mother about how she was over 35 and now too old to run for president of the US
. I didn't see it. This is what my mother told me. My mother said she talked her down from it. Now that I think back, did my mother really laugh about that? I guess she did. Ok, that's really strange...
We also laughed how they got a camper and were planning a trip. They all lived in the camper (it was only a VW van with a toilet under a seat cushion) in their driveway for a month, using the toilet and everything to practice for the trip. The day of the trip, they drove off, driving right off the bridge of our island, trip over! That was funny, right?
So many crazy families. Another family on our block used to go to the cruise ships every week, pretending they were seeing passengers off, so they could eat the free food. After that the cruise ships stopped allowing friends of passengers to see them off. We always joked it was because of them.
I could go on. The other family where the teenaged son was a peeping Tom in everybody's windows and exposing himself...
The other family where the dad was shooting fish with a machine gun...
The other family where the parents locked the kids in their bedrooms...
And more...