My mom is Korean and was born immediately after the war and became a refugee after participating in student rebellions against a dictatorship. Pretty sure her goal while raising me was to make me resistant to government interrogation.
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Doesn't sound like a fun childhood, my condolences
It was..... educational. I don't really have a lot of great childhood memories, but on the plus side I am really great under pressure and am basically immune to intimidation.
No one in my adult life has been quite as formidable as a tiny Asian woman armed with knowledge of enhanced interrogation techniques and a bamboo spatula.
Who could have guessed that the secret to being really good at job interviews was a moderate to severe dose of child abuse?....
¯_/(ツ)_/¯
Can confirm: childhood trauma leads to valuable interview skills. For me i got really good at guessing what people are wanting and then subsequently became good at giving or then managing the negatives around not. Super good at touchy hair trigger situations, not very good at making friends though. 3/10 would not recommend
For me i got really good at guessing what people are wanting and then subsequently became good at giving or then managing the negatives around not.
Yeah.... Made me really good at lying on the fly and telling people what they want to hear. If you are going to catch a beating for being honest, ya might as well get good at spinning a tale.
not very good at making friends though. 3/10 would not recommend
I done pretty well at making a couple lifelong really close friendships. Not very good at talking about the weather or surface level friendships.
My mother is unshakable southern Baptist and deeply narcissistic woman born in Alabama and raised in Florida, the moment I see the shadow of emotional manipulation in any relationship, especially if it’s at work or somewhere I can’t just walk away from, I turn into fucking Blade:
“You obviously do not know, who you are FUCKING WITH”
You mean theseistic. Narcissism is self-destructive self-love. Theseism is abusive hubris and vanity.
See, Narcissus was a 16 year old kid who wanted to stay unmarried and go hunting alone in the woods. But everyone else wanted to marry him. Ameinias sexually harassed him, and Narcissus told him to fuck off and kys. Nemesis didn't like that, so she made Narcissus fall in love with his reflection and die. So narcissism is the kind of self-love that hurts you and gets you killed.
Theseus was a famous "hero" who slew the minotaur with the help of a woman who loved him, then abandoned her on a random island and left her for dead. Then he kidnapped 12 year old Helen of Troy with the plan to force her to marry him, so that he would be even more famous for marrying a daughter of Zeus. So theseism is the kind of hubris that makes you abuse others for personal gain.
Ha jokes on her, being emotionally manipulated is a turn on.
Don't date assholes
Is that this guy?
Maybe lol. I just found the first thing on duck duck go and went with it.