[ SECRET POST #5553 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5553 ⌋

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Comments

Re: I feel you OP

[(Anonymous)]

Same, anon. My parents (my mother in particular) were and are really anxious people who worried a lot about their kids but it just... came out in unhelpful and somewhat toxic ways. I didn't really understand it at the time, but their overwhelming fear that I wasn't smart enough, pretty enough, thin enough or a hard enough worker to succeed at life was incredibly hurtful and damaging to my self-esteem. I'm a very anxious, fearful person as an adult who's terrified of failure. They didn't mean to do that to me. They were just scared, and wanted me to overcome those fears by, I don't know, being perfect? When I couldn't, they got more anxious and strict and tried to tough-love me into being the perfect kid.

Re: I feel you OP

[(Anonymous)]

"They were just scared, and wanted me to overcome those fears by, I don't know, being perfect?"

I'm sorry! *hugs you* Really not helpful to a kid's self-esteem and anxiety levels, right? For me, they were just filled to the gills with anxiety from having grown up in food scarcity and fear. I hurt for all of us in retrospect, and it's helped me release a lot of my anger, if not my wishes for unconditional love.