Quote from: Marcel on June 18, 2014, 09:34:31 AM
Parents calling me stupid and lacking common sense. Over a missing yearbook photo.
OMG, how f***ing petty of them. My parents were the same way, constantly telling me what a worthless loser I was and how I'd never amount to anything because I had something stuck in my teeth or something. It's a miracle I have any self-esteem at all after all the years of gratuitous abuse I took. I mean seriously, if there was a major life lesson to be learned and it really would have affected my future in the grand scheme of things, I would have been all ears. After I graduated from college on my own, I lost one of my best friends to a suicide that I was frequently blamed for and in turn, my job (no great loss in hindsight) due to the fallout. I became homeless and had to move back in with my parents for a few weeks while I got my sh*t together. They were so condescending, sarcastic, derisive, abusive and horrible to me each and every day, that I moved out the very minute I was able to do so. Their parting shot to me was, "Thanks for stopping by." I think they got the message loud and clear when we basically didn't speak for about 20 years. Now that they realize I was trans and how hellacious my life had to have been (no thanks to them), they are now kicking themselves in the heads for making it all worse and realizing now that they really missed out. We're actually all pretty good now for the first time ever. I suspect that the fact they are comfortably retired helps a lot.
I was going to post some small first world problem right now, but now I don't mind so much.
