Mine hit me with the “We’re spending all this money on you now so you can’t grow up and say we didn’t spend money on you when your were a kid.”
Like…okay??? Thanks for the emotional receipt, I guess??
Mine hit me with the “We’re spending all this money on you now so you can’t grow up and say we didn’t spend money on you when your were a kid.”
Like…okay??? Thanks for the emotional receipt, I guess??
From Mom: “You don’t deserve any praise for your good grades. You already speak the languages in those classes so it’s expected you do well.”
From Dad: “Why did you only get 99%?”
Context: I grew up in a household where we spoke many languages. In highschool I had an easy time getting good grades in all the foreign language lessons but struggled with Maths or Science classes. The parents couldn’t fathom I could have a failing grade because I didn’t need to study for some classes (which should have given me more time to study for other classes, amarit?).
Had a classmate who’s parents were like that, he had a huge inferiority complex because of that
I found one of my classmates in the bathroom, crying, because she got a B+ on an assignment and she was afraid to tell her parents. Imagine being scared to tell your parents you got a good grade.
When I was home for the summer after my first year of university, I was taking a distance course. I listened to music a lot while studying. Day before a test, dad was yelling at me for not studying enough. He refused to believe I had studied because he heard me playing music a lot. He couldn’t comprehend I could have music on and be studying. To be fair, now that I’m older I have trouble concentrating on other things while music is on but back then I could have music on and study. I can’t fathom thinking a person must be actively listening to music and doing nothing else. Also because of my autism, being yelled at unfairly the day before a test actually made it harder to concentrate on the test because I was focused on being unfairly yelled at. Also this was after I had been living away from home for a year and passed most of my university classes, so he should have known I knew what I was doing when it came to studying. And if he didn’t think I could study with music playing, how the fuck did he think I had sufficient time to study in the dorms?
They could have been more sensitive about it, but I get the logic?