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Originally Posted by young_al_capone
My parents have very rarely ever encouraged me to do anything, but they've always been more than happy to discourage me from most of the things I've wanted to do  |
Pretty much exactly the same for me. I was constantly told "you won't like that" or "you won't be any good at that" or "people will laugh at you if you do that". I was
expected to do well at school but was never pushed. I was never encouraged to try new activites and doing anything creative was laughed at.
I think if I'd just laid in bed all day dad would have been quite happy - I wouldn't have been making any demands on him or costing him anything. He would grumble sometimes about the things I liked and praise people who had left school at 16 to join the army or go straight into a job. It was Inverted snobbery, basically and I don't think he ever wanted to be a father.