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My parents weren't alcoholics, but...


I'm surprised at how many people consider this film improbable and unrealistic.

My parents didn't drink or take drugs, or engage in adultery. They were responsible people in every way -- except to their only child.

It might seem hard to believe, but they largely ignored me. I did well in school and didn't get into trouble, so they must have thought there was no need to pay much attention to me (though my mother hated me because I was intelligent).

I never had any kind of "mature" relationship. I should have been able to talk with them about anything, but it was clear almost anything I might want to discuss was off limits. My mother once defended herself by saying that she always read to me at night. And my father sometimes gave me money when I did well in school. When I mentioned this to a close friend, he told me his father had done the same thing, and how much it hurt him.

I could tell you worse things, but I don't have enough cheese to go with the whine.

My parents did nothing to help me develop as a human being. I'm nearing the age of 70, and still paying for it.

I Accuse My Parents is hyperbolic, but the point it makes remains valid -- you can't ignore your children and expect them to grow up properly. This might not make much sense to those born after WWII, who were given the "right" to decide what music they would listen to, what they would learn in school, and so forth. But, as we see from current politics, the US is controlled by "adult" children (ie, mentally and spiritually immature idiots).

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