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A fun (/s) way in which my parents and siblings abused me was by nitpicking everything I said.
So if I complained "ugh, it's freezing outside" they would check the temperature, and if it was actually 2 °C they would yell at me for being wrong and lying to them and why was I such a horrible idiot and liar?
I'm not sure what their intent was, but the end result was that I don't speak to them and also I tend to overexplain. "It's freezing, okay, I don't know that it's actually freezing, but it feels extremely cold and the puddles outside are all frozen so I guess it has to be freezing."
So if I complained "ugh, it's freezing outside" they would check the temperature, and if it was actually 2 °C they would yell at me for being wrong and lying to them and why was I such a horrible idiot and liar?
I'm not sure what their intent was, but the end result was that I don't speak to them and also I tend to overexplain. "It's freezing, okay, I don't know that it's actually freezing, but it feels extremely cold and the puddles outside are all frozen so I guess it has to be freezing."
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