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[palominocorn]

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."

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[yvannairie]

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.