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Hanging out with my nieces/nephews I now understand most the discipline I received as a child was most likely because I was being annoying and nothing to do with right or wrong. (self.showerthoughts)
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[โ€“] blazeknave 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

80s. Mom. Same otherwise. Only now understanding my dad didn't hate me for being ND. In the end, I think he envied that I learned to love myself in ways he couldn't as an ND nerd in the 50s, and having to fit in, or getting jumped.

[โ€“] PeckerBrown 5 points 9 months ago

My dad was a drunken asshole who grew up in a tough world. He wasn't suited to fatherhood, and wasn't prepared to deal with a kid that was not him.

I suspect he had his own ND issues that would have been even more difficult for him do deal with as a kid in the 40s and 50s, not to mention his parents.

He was probably raised with the same kind of abuse I was, and more. I don't hate him.