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BlueKota

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14. It's hard when your family doesn't understand

Wed Apr 9, 2025, 09:31 PM

Apr 2025

who you are as an individual person. I have always been an absent minded professor type. I think the best example is I was reading before I even went to kindergarten but the last one to be able to tie my shoelaces right. Instructions about how to do things the require physical manipulation like cooking or driving a car takes me more time than the average person to comprehend. It was always labeled by some others as laziness or incompetence. Where if I'd have been given a few minutes of peace, I'd have figured it out and done it.

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Discovery From My Past. [View all] BlueKota Apr 2025 OP

Forgiveness and forgetting are two separate things UpInArms Apr 2025 #1

Thank you so much! BlueKota Apr 2025 #4

My therapist talked to me about forgiveness synni Apr 2025 #2

Thank you. BlueKota Apr 2025 #5

You didn't deserve that BluKota... Clouds Passing Apr 2025 #3

Thank you! BlueKota Apr 2025 #6

I agree with Clouds Passing. ShazzieB Apr 2025 #9

I think the mother daughter relationships BlueKota Apr 2025 #13

It takes years of trauma therapy to reach a point of feeling like we do deserve to be here Clouds Passing Apr 2025 #16

My mother blew hot and cold. ShazzieB Apr 2025 #7

I feel you, FirstLight Apr 2025 #11

It's hard when your family doesn't understand BlueKota Apr 2025 #14

I am sorry that you went through that. UniqueUserName Apr 2025 #8

Mostly I said it that way BlueKota Apr 2025 #12

BlueKota, you write so well. UniqueUserName Apr 2025 #15

We are born this way. Clouds Passing Apr 2025 #17

That, and each individual has different experiences and influences BlueKota Apr 2025 #20

I had to learn how to have my own back, no one else would. Clouds Passing Apr 2025 #21

Thank you. BlueKota Apr 2025 #18

So much of our parents is a product of their generation FirstLight Apr 2025 #10

There are definitely teachers who should have BlueKota Apr 2025 #19

When I read 'The Taming Of The Shrew' in the fifth grade, I thought it was written about my mother. (n/t) OldBaldy1701E Apr 2025 #22

It's difficult when Mom's are like that. BlueKota Apr 2025 #23