Children who grew up teaching themselves because nobody had time to teach them often become adults who are extraordinarily competent and quietly resentful that their independence was born from neglect rather than choice
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The skills that make you the person everyone relies on might be the same ones that quietly remind you nobody showed up when you needed them to.

Does anyone else see themselves in this article?

    • Asafum@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 months ago

      They say the clown is often the saddest person in the room. It’s certainly true for me as well