Children who grew up teaching themselves because nobody had time to teach them often become adults who are extraordinarily competent and quietly resentful that their independence was born from neglect rather than choice
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The skills that make you the person everyone relies on might be the same ones that quietly remind you nobody showed up when you needed them to.

Does anyone else see themselves in this article?

  • Xylight‮@lemdro.idEnglish
    152·
    29 days ago

    lemmy users are a collection of high iq free thinking individuals who are extraordinarily competent.

    • VitoRobles@lemmy.todayEnglish
      5·
      29 days ago

      Honestly I kinda like it. It’s classic Reddit energy.

      I bathe in this smugness. With this, I am euphoric.

    • Noodle07@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      29 days ago

      I am extremely competent at leveling a druid to lvl 60 in hardcore classic wow, I’m an average gamer besides that and a failure for anything else. AMA