another thing to add to the list of things that confuse me on a gut level: when people describe talking to their parents on a regular basis, or uh pretty much ever actually
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you're telling me you guys didn't get punished for telling your parents things that fell slightly out of line with their expectations so quickly learned to not tell your parents anything ever? 🤔🤔🤔
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and they wonder why i take so long to reply to their messages now 🙄
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one of the fucked up things about this is it didn't occur to me that anything was "wrong" for a long time b/c all the teenagers i saw in TV, movies, etc. growing up also hated their parents, and also so did nearly all my friends, so it all just seemed normal to me
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do any of you feel like you had good relationships with your parents? what was that like? what did they do if you came to them with problems? did you feel comfortable opening up to them about uhhh anything? what did they do if you fucked something up?
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Relatedly, something I noticed recently: as a kid I just naturally hated Edna Krabappel because I saw her as the mean teacher who gave Bart a bad time at school. Seeing her now is different - she actually really tries with him, she just can't get him to not be a "bad kid" and 1/
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It makes them both feel like failures. I see it much more as a systemic issue with how school is than a personal failing of here (or his) now.
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