Yeah, it’s what you do for the rest of it. Your job is only 2-3 hours a day and you’re useless to her the rest of the time?
Clean the house, cook dinner, garden. Even learning a new language or painting is better than PlayStation. Are you 12?
Being mean doesn’t work on my kids btw, they will just assume something is wrong with you.
My friend’s grandmother once told my daughter she was “the most selfish child she’s ever met” because when asked to give up the marker she was doodling with, my girlie said, “one moment please, I’m almost done!”
And my girl just blinked and said, “maybe check that cup of markers for another one? Are you okay?” 🤣🤣
You knew how to act in social settings and SUDDENLY decided to act otherwise. Now people dont like you. Dont blame attention deficit bc you actively choose to be asocial and unlikable
Sincerely an adult with ADHD
What you are describing here is what people mean when they say that we missing social cues. You are describing not being able to separate signal from noise and interpreting junk data instead of meaningful communication.
These same childless uncles and aunts helped to raise your children.
Especially childless aunties.
There is a kind of casual psychopathy we allow married people and people with children get away with because we pretend these are special statuses.
These people are such users.
See this is one of those things where I have no idea what unmasking means. You made it to adulthood having learned social skills and figuring out how to not have tantrums and now you’re trying to undo that?
The funniest thing about anthropology is the more you learn about it, the more you realise how often full papers and books and theories came from indigenous people fucking with the researchers without them realising
Because people who lack confidence think negatively about themselves all the time, they assume having confidence means thinking positively about yourself. The reality is that real confidence means not thinking about yourself at all.