If someone fails to appreciate you, is there truly nothing there to appreciate, or does their failure reveal a limitation in their capacity to perceive you? What lies beyond the limits of their perception does not cease to exist, nor does their inability to recognise it make you any less worthy of admiration.
Remember that.
Literacy is becoming the new class divide. Not formal education, LITERACY. Many people can't grasp nuance, satire, or irony. Illiteracy limits how you read the world and the room. The gap between people who engage with complex ideas and those who consume clickbait is vast.
The difference between a grounded parent and a parasitic one is shown in a child's instincts.
When a child refuses to run back to his own mother, that tells you everything you need to know.
A child's energy field is still open. They feel what adults have learned to ignore. They don't run based on loyalty or guilt. They run based on frequency.
They run to where they feel safe, protected, and held.
They run from what feels off, draining, or unsafe, even if they can't explain why.
That's not manipulation. That's survival.
And honestly? I can't imagine how much that must hurt, to have your own child afraid of you, crying, and running the other way.
That's not a child acting out.
That's a child telling the truth with their body because they don't yet have the words.