On the Spectrum

Have to go fix my fathers dryer today probably just sleep the rest of the day from the stress of it he really knowns how to and enjoys pushing my buttons.  He's a real loon he kept his dead cat in his freezer or two months till I went up to bury it

Last edited by parts (March 4, 2007 6:29 am)

I think it would be easier to list the living relatives I actually like or at least haven't had much chance to form an opinion about.

parts wrote:

Sean wrote:

I think it would be easier to list the living relatives I actually like or at least haven't had much chance to form an opinion about.

Yeah you hit the nail right on the head with that one 

Aye, I couldn't agree more. Just like someone saying that it would be easier to list the teachers who have made a positive impact rather than a negative one... a much shorter list, I'm sure.

She only tells me years later and then I wish I'd known sooner.

I get that a lot why can't they just say something. I'm 40 and am still finding out stuff that I didn't know about when I was a kid.  Many things make so much more sense now that I know more about what had happened but there is still much more.

turtle0403 wrote:

parts wrote:

She only tells me years later and then I wish I'd known sooner.

I get that a lot why can't they just say something. I'm 40 and am still finding out stuff that I didn't know about when I was a kid.  Many things make so much more sense now that I know more about what had happened but there is still much more.

Yes, I think mum wanted to protect me a lot because she and dad thought I was "emotionally fragile". In some ways, I am better in a crisis or with shocking information than with little everyday problems. I have misjudged some people not knowing the true circumstances and now want to know as much as possible before forming an opinion.

There are a few relatives I feel awkward around because they tend to give more advice than I can handle but the main issue I have is just not seeing most of them often enough because they don't live close.

I got the over protective bit real bad I was the youngest by ten years and was always the baby of the family.  Now 41 and still hearing new things about when I was growing up

turtle0403 wrote:

Funny thing is, I was the eldest of 7 kids but my parents decided early on that I was too highly strung to cope with much bad news. Whether or not that was right, I don't know.

I don't know if that's what they thought of me but I was almost never given bad news.  When you think about it that's really bad as when I got older I got bad news and didn't know how to deal with it

It's really true if you are shielded from all bad news as a child that it's harder to cope with it when you are older. Maybe the best thing is to get kids used to small bits of bad news (but then again, sometimes really bad things happen and you can't completely protect them).