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nonightowl · Nov 12, 2023 at 06:46 PM

My parents have been deceased for years now, yet I'm just now finding out there was never anything wrong with me, it was THEM. But they would have been too arrogant to see it, if it was brought up to them.

We worship parents in this culture or there's this myth they know what's best for their kids, they know everything, etc. They don't know SQUAT most of them. My parents wanted me to be like them, to live like them, to think like them. It took me doing some digging to see that I'm more human than they ever could have hoped to be or thought they were. Plus I'm more comfortable in my own skin than I ever have been.

Glad I don't have to hear their criticism anymore. They were helicopter parents, though that phrase wasn't in use then.