Anyone else?
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As a kid, I always assumed if someone fell down the stairs--they died. It just appeared that way often enough in tv and movies.
What shows were you watching? I can only think of the Exorcist and Psycho, but those are kind of unique falls. All the others I can think of were comedy pratfalls and definitely not fatal.
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Try being raised in a narcissist Christian household with clearly sensitive parents seething at every opportunity to lob shame and judgment on ANYONE else to distract from the fucking evil stain on life which they themselves are. Couple it with some financial success in their lives so they extra feel like they don't need to answer to anyone else for fucking anything.
Story of my god damn life. Thanks to them I struggle to hold down a job.
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Try being raised in a narcissist Christian household with clearly sensitive parents seething at every opportunity to lob shame and judgment on ANYONE else to distract from the fucking evil stain on life which they themselves are. Couple it with some financial success in their lives so they extra feel like they don't need to answer to anyone else for fucking anything.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]lol anyone else remember being in pre-k and pleading with God not to send you into eternal fire?
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Why not just tell them that it will make them throw up then? Kids don't enjoy throwing up.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]Speak for yourself. Gestures to children triggering their own gag reflex for fun and profit
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Are you me?
No pretty sure they're me.
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For me it was if you swallow a plant seed, the plant will grow in your stomach and you will die from it. My dad was joking, but I was 5 and didn't know any better. I went on believing that until I was in my teens because things like that you don't re-evaluate every so often. It's just "my dad told me this and he wouldn't lie to me because grownups don't lie" stuck on autopilot.
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Was told that watching too much TV would make my eyes square.
Also, attaching sheets of papers to the front of the TV (static of CRTs) could allegedly make the TV explode.
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I was told the same thing but I don't really feel anxious very often.
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You won't die right away but supposedly digesting food causes the digestive tract to draw in more blood, leaving less for the muscles used in swimming and increasing the risk for cramps and fatigue.
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Try being raised in a narcissist Christian household with clearly sensitive parents seething at every opportunity to lob shame and judgment on ANYONE else to distract from the fucking evil stain on life which they themselves are. Couple it with some financial success in their lives so they extra feel like they don't need to answer to anyone else for fucking anything.
I feel your pain with the narcissist parents. My parents were autists, so there was a lot of abuse growing up.
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In my early school years, we only had round tipped plastic safety scissors that could barely cut tissue paper. As a kid, I was terrified at the degree of responsibility and potential to take another kid's life those scissors represented.
The adults in charge when I was a kid had us convinced that if we ran with scissors in our hands we were going to kill the other children in the vicinity by accident in the most horrifically bloody and violent manner. They even showed us video re-enactments of children getting stabbed in the heart, neck, and eye complete with fake blood gushing out and Bugs Bunny worthy death performances.
A lot of us thought this was some super common way that kids were dying by the millions all across the world.
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What shows were you watching? I can only think of the Exorcist and Psycho, but those are kind of unique falls. All the others I can think of were comedy pratfalls and definitely not fatal.
I wish i could remember! Guess I'm old enough now to have forgotten where those ideas even came from. Whatever it was, it was likely in the early-mid 80's...
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Just a random fact that had barely anything to do with anything: In parts of Germany, there is the saying "did you fall down the stairs backwards" when someone cuts their hair quite short. I am from a part of Germany where this is not common and first time I heard it, it was a mentally handicapped person so I assumed he was just talking random stuff as he often did until I was told that that is common here.
That's such a fun tangent! Thanks for sharing that
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If you didn't know what my point was, how can then formulate your own point from it? So confusing.
We're hopeful you will see a therapist to deal with those repressed memories from your grandma, since you are behaving so oddly.
We are all rooting for you champ!
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Try being raised in a narcissist Christian household with clearly sensitive parents seething at every opportunity to lob shame and judgment on ANYONE else to distract from the fucking evil stain on life which they themselves are. Couple it with some financial success in their lives so they extra feel like they don't need to answer to anyone else for fucking anything.
I didnāt have that but my girlfriend in high school did.
My parents neglected me enough they made those wackos look sort of OK.
I feel like I've supported a lot of therapists monetarily
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In my early school years, we only had round tipped plastic safety scissors that could barely cut tissue paper. As a kid, I was terrified at the degree of responsibility and potential to take another kid's life those scissors represented.
The adults in charge when I was a kid had us convinced that if we ran with scissors in our hands we were going to kill the other children in the vicinity by accident in the most horrifically bloody and violent manner. They even showed us video re-enactments of children getting stabbed in the heart, neck, and eye complete with fake blood gushing out and Bugs Bunny worthy death performances.
A lot of us thought this was some super common way that kids were dying by the millions all across the world.
āOn February 15, 1909, Milletās 15th birthday, these āgirl stenographersā promised that when the workday ended, they would kiss him once for every year of his age. At 4:30pm, they made good on their vow and descended on Millet to deliver the expected smooches. Millet tried to wriggle away, and in the ensuing rumpus was heard to exclaim, āIām stabbed!ā
According to the Times, 23-year-old Gertrude Robbins, one of the kiss-happy stenographers, rushed to his aid, but fainted at the sight of blood streaming from a wound in his chest. An ambulance was summoned and Millet transported to New York Hospital, but he died from his injuries on the way there.
Arrested on the charge of homicide, Robbins told police what had happened. Right before the office kissfest, Millet had been holding an ink eraserānot a rubber blob, but a six-inch-long metal tool that resembled a knife. When the stenographers surrounded him, Milletās eraser was in his pocket. During the fracas, he fell forward, and the sharp point of the eraser drove into his heart.ā
https://slate.com/human-interest/2014/10/george-spencer-millet-kissed-to-death-in-1909.html
Someone lands on the bad roulette number once in a while.
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I feel your pain with the narcissist parents. My parents were autists, so there was a lot of abuse growing up.
Just an FYI, having autism doesn't make someone an abuser... it's just possible for assholes to have autism too.
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Well, no. I realized those things were silly. My mom told me and my sister we'd get skin cancer if we pinched each other. She just wanted us to shut the fuck up and so we did. You later learn these things aren't real and that's the end of it?
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You won't die right away but supposedly digesting food causes the digestive tract to draw in more blood, leaving less for the muscles used in swimming and increasing the risk for cramps and fatigue.
No, it's rubbish. They tell you that because if you're a kid and you eat and then go do some vigorous exercise you're likely to be sick which means everyone has to get out of the pool and a lowly employee has to clean it up.
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For me it was if you swallow a plant seed, the plant will grow in your stomach and you will die from it. My dad was joking, but I was 5 and didn't know any better. I went on believing that until I was in my teens because things like that you don't re-evaluate every so often. It's just "my dad told me this and he wouldn't lie to me because grownups don't lie" stuck on autopilot.
That can actually happen. But itās very rare, obviously.
