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That ended with me finally explaining to him how the way he and my mother treated me as a child, with undiagnosed (and really not even conceptually understood at the time) ADHD caused me lasting trauma that persists to this day. I’m a 45 year old man, and I cried.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

I was lucky. I had one of those working class families where school was important and they essentially wanted you to go into science, medicine, law, engineering and such. It actually was bad for my sister who wasted some time as a biology major before she moved to being a music major which really was what she should have been the whole time but my family had pressure to go into academics.