Now you're stuck in a life you didn't expect to see so it's kinda awkward because you weren't supposed to be here.
Feels like those videogames in which you fall off the map or glitch in a way that lets you get to a part where you shouldn't be and everything is weird because the game itself isn't prepared for what's happening.
Also yeah, mother is a narcissist, father is emotionally stunted and both were heavy drinkers and smokers when I was a kid. Yay! I relate!
Wrong!
My father is the narcissist and my mom is emotionally stunted.
In reality you parents are almost certainly also neurodivergent too
Holy fuck, I've never felt like the eye of sauron was looking directly at me until now.
yeah this is exactly me. I didnt intend to even make it to 18 yet here i am
So no one told you life was gonna be this way
Has anyone out there survived this character creation diceroll?
Eh. My mom and dad are really cool and pretty progressive people. But my mom has terrible anxiety and my dad has adhd. Guess who got both?
If I’d known I was going to live this long, I would have taken better care of myself.
Damn, I just thought your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberry.
Swap around the parent rolls, a dash of a middle sister as bad as any bully, and bam you have my family "life."
My dad was neglectful undiagnosed autistic, my mom was emotionally volatile undiagnosed ADHD. And I am traumatized (cPTSD) AuDHD
you got my dad and mom mixed up tho
Reverse the mom and dad part and trade the thing with anxiety and you got it nailed on the head.
To be fair, it wasn't for lack of trying that I didn't die young. I did all the drugs, but somehow I got past 27 anyway.
insert "I'm in this photo and I don't like it" meme
Stop reading my diary!
Pretty sure my dad is partially emotionally stunted due to being autistic and because of parents who weren't always the greatest. But that's something I'll never truly have an answer to considering he refuses to get tested for it and his insistence he wouldn't have been allowed in the military if he was autistic.
I'm 9999% positive he's the reason I have it.
close, but my father is dead.
I didnt think i'd die young. But that i'd die alone and now i have a husband
Three out of four ain't bad. Oh, wait ...
Ha, joke's on you!. My father is a narcissist, my mother was emotionally stunted, and I...
I haven't even had breakfast yet dude
Not only that, but now I'm emotionally stunted and married to a narcissist, and our son is neurodivergent.
Fuuuuuuuuuck. I feel bad for all of us. We don't deserve this. We can be good, kind, and loving. Also as weird and wonderful as we want.
Ehh I did die young but they didn't let me go.
What kind of sorcery is this? It's literally me!
I'm in this picture and I don't like it
Holy shit
If you replace the Narcissistic mother with an insufferably negative and judgemental person, does that count?
Why does this have to be text, in a tweet, with a random background, as an image, with not even alt text?
Wow called out
I wouldn't say she's a narcissist. I still could die young.
I don’t appreciate being called out like this. Especially that last line. I’ve been expecting to die soon for nearly 30 years now and for some reason I’m still chugging along. Wtf.
I'm in this picture and I don't like it
My father was both, so my mom turned out ok I think. And it's not that I didn't expect to still be alive, so much as I hadn't really fully conceptualized life in my 30s and 40s? It was as foreign a concept to me as what happens in a story after the "happily ever after" and the credits roll. What do you mean, what happens next? Story's over. And I have even less of an idea now of what to do with myself than I did then, I just know that a plucky attitude and a "well, I'll figure it out somehow" didn't do the trick.
Nope, doesn't match me.
Well I didn't think I'd die young, I guess my life really is totally unique
Very similar except both have strong narcissist traits and lack empathy.
Re: die young. I was ~25 when I confronted the possibility of old age for the first time. I'd lived such a reckless life that I considered it impossible before reforming (completely by accident / without choosing a different path).
Flip the genders, then add a religious cult and it's me. Except I was told the end of the world would arrive before I turned 18, so my entire childhood was a forced quest for being as "holy" as possible to make sure I would be allowed in heaven.
That shit took years to get past
No need to sum up my childhood.
I even planned on dying at 18. Just turns out that all the drug prevention lectures were wrong and no one just hands you drugs. This shit is expensive.
Not me. My father had mental problems that got treatment and my mom had other ones that fly more under the radar. On hindsite I think I had a particular thing but who knows. Kinda sounds like my wife though.
just din’t have kids
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