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How did your childhood/upbringing affect your adulthood?


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Like you know, key things. Let's say you had strict parents and turned into a reckless hussy in rebellion or you suffered a particular tragedy that shaped you, or your parents split when you were young and you turned into a reckless hussy for attention, or you learned to live with a disability big or small and what kind of outlook that gave you, or your family was constantly moving and you were always the new kid so you turned into a reckless hussy to fit in.... Etc

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I have a really great outlook on life because of my family, both sides of my family are HUGE, I have all the major religions in my family, on my moms side I have a ton of races and mixed-ness lol. So I have a very good understanding of different personalities, which comes in handy. And I love that both parents are very artistic and really funny. What I'm really grateful for too is my mom LOVES to travel, so because of her I've been all over most of the U.S, Japan, Egypt, Canada (ofcourse, I mean I am from Detroit), and Mexico. And she's VERY open minded just with life, and let me & my sibs make really big decisions from a early age and let us find out who we wanted to be, she didn't play, but she was alot more lenient than most parents, but not as loose as alot of parents.

I have my own issues as being a middle kid, and not a typical personality, but I have a really great outlook on life that I don't think most people my age or in general have.

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I have a really great outlook on life because of my family, both sides of my family are HUGE, I have all the major religions in my family, on my moms side I have a ton of races and mixed-ness lol. So I have a very good understanding of different personalities, which comes in handy. And I love that both parents are very artistic and really funny. What I'm really grateful for too is my mom LOVES to travel, so because of her I've been all over most of the U.S, Japan, Egypt, Canada (ofcourse, I mean I am from Detroit), and Mexico. And she's VERY open minded just with life, and let me & my sibs make really big decisions from a early age and let us find out who we wanted to be, she didn't play, but she was alot more lenient than most parents, but not as loose as alot of parents.

I have my own issues as being a middle kid, and not a typical personality, but I have a really great outlook on life that I don't think most people my age or in general have.

I have a certain outlook too due to my family. Grew up in a loving environment with two amazing sisters, and a mom and dad who are still married and happily in love. So my issues growing up were internal, feeling like the black sheep. I became very quiet and withdrawn... I'm a lot more open now but still, being an observer, a listener, one of few words has stuck with me. I think it made me a lot wiser and more compassionate/empathetic. It's easy for me to put myself in someone's shoes and I think I give great advice because of that. I'm very nurturing -_- I guess because growing up I wanted to have a voice to guide and soothe me through everything... But I only had myself... So when I can try to help someone and "empower" them I do -_-

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I have a certain outlook too due to my family. Grew up in a loving environment with two amazing sisters, and a mom and dad who are still married and happily in love. So my issues growing up were internal, feeling like the black sheep. I became very quiet and withdrawn... I'm a lot more open now but still, being an observer, a listener, one of few words has stuck with me. I think it made me a lot wiser and more compassionate/empathetic. It's easy for me to put myself in someone's shoes and I think I give great advice because of that. I'm very nurturing -_- I guess because growing up I wanted to have a voice to guide and soothe me through everything... But I only had myself... So when I can try to help someone and "empower" them I do -_-

AWW we have alot in common personality wise actually (guess that's why we click). What's funny is me & the 2 other siblings I have with both parents (my dad has like 6 other kids, I know them all, but they're all older and I only grew up with the 1's my mom have), we're all pretty quiet and reserved, but I made the observation that they both are that way, but they draw really cool people to them because they're curious....I didn't lol, so at a young age I had to learn to be outspoken and speak up if I want friends, so I draw people in with that aspect of my personality but I'm still VERY much a quiet observer. And I think since I can be both makes me a better person too. And it's easy for me to empathize, I guess it's cause all my life by my sibs I've been dumped on, so I know what it is to be the underdog and how lonely and scary and uncertain it can be, but also how when someone is rooting for you and you fucking WIN at something how truly great that is.

Mr. Roc, by that 1 post in this thread, I think I like you like 50x's more, and you werent exactly disliked to begin with lol.

Speaking of the daddy issues earlier......been kinda on the fense on whether to talk about this but, meh, I know most of you pretty well so what the hell (hell I've probably mentioned it a few times already), my parents divorced before I was a year old because my dad was a SERIOUS drug addict and just the worst kind of husband and man imaginable, and my mom just had enough and she left, raised 3 kids on her own (with the help of alot of my fam, on both sides, my dads side weirdly or awesomely LOVEEEES my mom like seriously they view her as almost his sister now lol, so that's awesome, and an awesome example of what I want with a Ex's fam....well an Ex who has my kids fam). So growing up my dad was really sick, all the drugs fucked him up, went to rehab for most of my childhood, and got an awesome supportive girlfriend, and he's completely clean, he had a ton of emergency surgery and sickness scares, but fucking reversed it, in my family on all sides, diabetes are pretty big, of all people my dad is the only person I physically know who had it but then completely reversed it, like he's totally healthy now, and a REALLY great guy, really funny, and what he taught me is, no matter how bad it gets for you physically, mentally, you can always turn it around, like seriously the dude should be DEAD, but he's stronger now than he's ever been, and according to my mom & his mom a better person than hes ever been.

Growing up with a single mom tho, and a family of mostly single women did also make me more compassionate and...a bit softer (I REALLY hate to say...Im making the "ugh" face as I type this) than if I had male influences but I can appreciate that today...as a kid tho..... lol, but it made me always long to be accepted by males & masculine personalities.

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We weren't allowed to socialise with people other than cousins. As a result I've always been shy - always. It's worse today than it was as a kid to the point that I'm skipping an assessment day job interview because I feel physically sick at the thought of being around people.

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I think we're all kinda screwed up from parents to some degree. My folks were married for 30 years and divorced, in the course of 30 years I lived with a tyrant for a dad, and my mom just wanted him, even though he beat her and the kids. He was mean, I wanted everything I could do to leave, and I wanted to go to college in another city, but I ended up here instead. I learned as I aged that my childhood was worst than i thought, my brother and I are both screwed up. But somehow I finished college, have a fulltime job, Im a push over nice guy, because in order to survive in my home growing up you did as you were told. I never got to date, never had friends over, my dad had to control everything. I truly believe I should have been one of those kids that moved from home as far away as possible. Now as an adult I can see the damage, I just work on what I can. I wasn't a happy child ever....

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