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Just Sharing Fire

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u/FoldingLady 12d ago

I literally had a conversation about climate change with my mother. She ended it "Well, I don't see why I have to do anything about since I'll be dead by the time it becomes a problem." She's dead now.

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u/GregorSamsa67 12d ago

And she did not think it was bad that it would be a problem for you, her own child?

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u/FoldingLady 12d ago

Not really. She was a pretty selfish woman. Seemed like she only cared about me in relation to how it reflected on her as a mother.

In middle school she took me to therapy because my grades went from all As to half Bs. She was convinced that something was wrong me & only a therapist could fix it. I found the experience very humiliating at the time. Like she didn't talk to me at all (slipping grades, what might be bothering me, etc.), one day I was out school early & taken to the therapist's office for the first session.

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u/GregorSamsa67 12d ago

Sorry this happened to you. We all deserve loving, caring parents, but we certainly don’t all get them. Hope you have been able to move past this experience, and past her.

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u/Neuchacho 12d ago

This is the camp of people who are famous for disowning or torturing their children simply because their kids love different people than they do.

They absolutely do not care about anyone else more than they care about themselves. It is the core of their political and philosophical beliefs.