I think it’s gauche to claim this in the US. Respectability requires a certain amount of emotional baggage here. People here look at me weird if I say horrifying things like “my parents are nice enough people and I had a pretty much okay upbringing I have pleasant memories of” https://twitter.com/TripleJas/status/1303547968562163713 …
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I honestly suspect many Americans of manufacturing childhood traumas to fit in. Either that, or they actually buy the creepy levels of theatrical family/friends intimacy portrayed in American TV shows/movies.
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I don’t think its fair to suspect that. Or suspect that people didnt get the car they wanted as a kid and label it as trauma, as someone else has suggested here. And it’s hard to see if you can’t empathize with others in the first place and realize their experience might be real.
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It would certainly be wrong to act on the suspicion without evidence
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