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Sorry to reply to two of your comments, but to specifically address "people like us need to be forced to do things", but people trying to force me and belittling me when I just could not in the end, is what gave me cptsd. There definitely are other ways than force, and for me force just isn't even a way. For me, seeking out that sort of force would be a form of self harm that would only serve to drive and reinforce my (now dissipating) self hatred. Maybe for others it is a form of self harm that also gets results, or maybe for others it just isn't harmful, I can't be sure, but we can't be forcing it on every kid.
I get what you're saying, because I also get resistant when I'm "forced" to do something.
I think the force that they are referring to above is a more gentle "You know you want to/need to do this, and it's now or never, so get to it!"
It's not a force against our will, (like putting a gun to someone and saying do this thing you would never do.) but more like, X needs done and the consequences of not doing it now will be worse than the act of doing it.
If my wife asks me to take out the trash (which I have been ignoring for three days) before she gets home, I will do it because I want to be a good husband and I don't want her to be upset with me, but if she hadn't asked, it would probably be there for another three days.
In most cases the more aggressive forms of force came from well meaning people that started out with the type you describe, with a very gradual escalation. The problem is that my burnout was compounding, not reducing, over time when I tried to comply which would lead to this increasing dread over time and eventually would lead to just a total failure. When I reach total failure, they just keep on pressing until it's a more overt form of abuse. The more overt forms only came out initially a very small number of times. So I really was talking about the sort of force you're describing, but on a sort of spectrum that leads to the sort you were inferring.