Eyyy my mom did this too! Usually only when I was expressing complex opinions, though. She said she was "challenging" me to get me to develop as a thinker but in practice being browbeat by an adult from 12 to 20 made me move out ASAP afterwards and not talk to her for a year. The only reason we're talking now is because I learned to browbeat her right back, and it made me realise that even if I had had a point back then, she would have never admitted it due to her own baggage from having this same thing done to her as a kid.
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Date: 2021-08-30 05:21 pm (UTC)Eyyy my mom did this too! Usually only when I was expressing complex opinions, though. She said she was "challenging" me to get me to develop as a thinker but in practice being browbeat by an adult from 12 to 20 made me move out ASAP afterwards and not talk to her for a year. The only reason we're talking now is because I learned to browbeat her right back, and it made me realise that even if I had had a point back then, she would have never admitted it due to her own baggage from having this same thing done to her as a kid.