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I agree with you Cambion. The same thing happened to me. I wasn't even allowed to bathe myself even after I started my period because my moo had to make sure I was "clean". These Boomer parents are absolutely insane and I have little sympathy when their adult kids worry them to death because they made their bed.

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I do notice on Reddit CF, most those (usually) women are in their 30s per what they say. Dismissively complain about Boomer parents, not understanding....their problems. They will literally say, "you know, they are like just figure it out" I honestly don't understand what their generation of parents got them ready for, or didn't, because they seem to be drowning in normal stuff people go thru and are mad because they aren't getting MORE support out of parents. I guess the parents want them to learn by themselves *some* time! I'm telling you, I bothered my parents for absolutely nothing in my 30s, and long before that....nothing! Besides, if the parents tell them anything they don't want to hear, they will just complain about that too.

That's probably because boomer advice amounts to "pull yourself up by your bootstraps" and "you wouldn't be so poor if you just stopped eating avocado toast." My mother is a boomer and she didn't teach me shit because she felt that the only thing that mattered in life was grades, to the point she did my homework for me until I was 15 and then somehow expected me to excel in college I didn't want to attend in the first place. I was never taught how to do laundry, wash dishes, budget money, balance a checkbook, cook, clean, drive, nothing. I figured out how to do all this shit over time, but I know not everyone manages to do that and now we have a huge crop of helpless 20-30-somethings who will become helpless middle aged adults because their boomer parents couldn't be arsed to be parents.

I still kind of hate her for leaving me woefully unprepared for life. A parent's job is to raise their kids to be independent adults. I know some of my generation is just a bunch of whiny assholes who want to be told how special they are and given a cookie every time they do something right. But plenty of them also had inept parents who failed at their jobs. My mother's method of teaching me anything was to tell me I have no common sense any time I did something wrong, even if I was like five years old. But also never showed me the right way to do things while also preventing me from trying to figure things out on my own so I wouldn't fail, gain independence or make trouble. I'm still shocked I managed to not be one of these emotionally crippled millennials that considers every trivial inconvenience traumatic.

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I do notice on Reddit CF, most those (usually) women are in their 30s per what they say. Dismissively complain about Boomer parents, not understanding....their problems. They will literally say, "you know, they are like just figure it out" I honestly don't understand what their generation of parents got them ready for, or didn't, because they seem to be drowning in normal stuff people go thru and are mad because they aren't getting MORE support out of parents. I guess the parents want them to learn by themselves *some* time! I'm telling you, I bothered my parents for absolutely nothing in my 30s, and long before that....nothing! Besides, if the parents tell them anything they don't want to hear, they will just complain about that too.

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This entire forum is proof positive that the average CF person is way smarter than the average Breeder. All you have to do is look at the spelling, punctuation and grammar of our posts.

I am glad we have this forum because the rest of the internet (particularly FaceBooger) makes me nuts.

Call me an elitist snob, but it grates the Hell out of me to read posts from illiterate people. I usually discount whatever it is they are trying to say. Spell check is everywhere now and it's just people being lazy.

I just read something where a guy wrote that he bought a property that used to belong to his family so he could bring it back to the "sir name." And his sprogs found the "illusive" family graveyard. I'm a member of a diabetic group and a woman just posted something where she consistently used the term "blood surgar." JFC, cannot even spell "sugar" correctly?

And then there are people who write U R for "you are" and ur for "yours." Ugh.

I'm particularly annoyed by misuse of homonyms. On a public board there's a 50-50 chance that someone would write "it greats the hell out of me."

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I have PTSD. My crazy drunken landlord broke into my apartment while I was sleeping and threatened to kill me.

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Call me an elitist snob, but it grates the Hell out of me to read posts from illiterate people. I usually discount whatever it is they are trying to say. Spell check is everywhere now and it's just people being lazy.

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bell_flower
This entire forum is proof positive that the average CF person is way smarter than the average Breeder. All you have to do is look at the spelling, punctuation and grammar of our posts.

I am glad we have this forum because the rest of the internet (particularly FaceBooger) makes me nuts.

Call me an elitist snob, but it grates the Hell out of me to read posts from illiterate people. I usually discount whatever it is they are trying to say. Spell check is everywhere now and it's just people being lazy.

I just read something where a guy wrote that he bought a property that used to belong to his family so he could bring it back to the "sir name." And his sprogs found the "illusive" family graveyard. I'm a member of a diabetic group and a woman just posted something where she consistently used the term "blood surgar." JFC, cannot even spell "sugar" correctly?

And then there are people who write U R for "you are" and ur for "yours." Ugh.