My mom always said the same thing, except she was always wrong, accusing me of shit i didn't do, and making wild assumptions with no basis in reality and punishing me anyway because she thought it was necessary to keep up the act like she had this bullshit omniscience. It was the first thing that clued me in how full of shit she really was. The ability to admit she was wrong, didn't know something, and apologize would have gone a lot further in maintaining my respect than pretending to be all-knowing when she so clearly wasn't.
I remember in first grade it almost led to child services being called because I told my teacher how my mom was always seeing things that weren't there, didn't happen, or that she was just imagining. That was an awkward parent-teacher conference.
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u/drgigantor 2d ago
My mom always said the same thing, except she was always wrong, accusing me of shit i didn't do, and making wild assumptions with no basis in reality and punishing me anyway because she thought it was necessary to keep up the act like she had this bullshit omniscience. It was the first thing that clued me in how full of shit she really was. The ability to admit she was wrong, didn't know something, and apologize would have gone a lot further in maintaining my respect than pretending to be all-knowing when she so clearly wasn't.
I remember in first grade it almost led to child services being called because I told my teacher how my mom was always seeing things that weren't there, didn't happen, or that she was just imagining. That was an awkward parent-teacher conference.