don't talk back to your elders
If you're comfortable sharing, what's something that an adult told you when you were young that — intentions aside — had a memorably negative impact on you?
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Was 8 or 9 watching the news when I asked "how do we know that what they are saying is true?" The response by an adult was "if it weren't true, they wouldn't be allowed to say it was true." Took a few years to weed that out.
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That sentiment let a generation believe flat-earth youtube videos were true.pic.twitter.com/NVpvqwngSA
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Most peeps like jobs they have or are realistic options 4 them. Statistically, most peeps not like they jobs or any realistically available.
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An adult, high up in my schools administration, told me about his struggle to lose weight and how he didn't want to do it but realized for his family he had no choice. Which he then linked to my miserable grades and said I'm in the same situation. I found that so depressing.
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Few of my teachers or adults every told me anything outright harmful but they did allude to life generally being shitty and I should just get used to it quite often.
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"You'll change your mind when you get older" It was so condescendingly dismissive of my opinion at the time that I spend my life actively ensuring they were wrong, instead of just letting life unfold naturally.
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I wonder if “You may change your mind when you are older” would have felt more like “keep an open mind” rather than “you are wrong”. Working with young people I consider my words carefully and worry I don’t get it right!
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senior yr HS. needed a grade sheet signed to graduate. i had only bothered to get 2 (of 8) classes filled. my guidance counselor tracked me down and told me not to bother with the rest because i had probably failed them anyway. to his credit, he was right.
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"i'm not lying" "that's not true" basically anything in that vein
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