by Questioning_LifeWhoameye.. go to chat!
I have to get my pad to do that. brb
I was always unempathetic. And a rotten bastard. Will remain so until I die. If I wanna fuck kids I'll fuck kids. If I wanna kill someone I'll kill someone. If I wanna rape your mother and kill your father I will if I want to. And if you lock me up in prison it'll teach me nada.
Both. My family has a fair amount of mental illness in it on both sides. There are PD's, bipolar, suicides, suicide attempts, psychosis, etc.
I wasn't abused but my parents methods had many, many flaws. My mother never let me socialize as a child which led me to not learn empathy, become very selfish.
Like I've said before, I have the same personality I do now as I did when I was a child. I've always been not very empathetic and selfish. I think I probably displayed a fair bit of autism as a kid, and I went to a special preschool for speech problems. I had speech problems because I was not socialized in my opinion.
When I went to preschool I developed ODD that was only school associated. One time one of my teachers made me sit at another table away from the other kids so I bit her. She wrote a note to my mom and my mom made me buy her an apology card. I went to school and gave it to her and as I handed it to her I told her "I'm not sorry, my mom made me". I remember this because at the end of the year she gave me the card back and I still have it today. I was probably 3 or 4 at the time. But nope...not much has changed.
I wasn't abused but my parents methods had many, many flaws. My mother
never let me socialize as a child which led me to not learn empathy,
become very selfish.
yeah, parents. screwy aren't they? Nut jobs in the fam aside, they can't control what you do as an adult.
by Pink01I wasn't abused but my parents methods had many, many flaws. My mother never let me socialize as a child which led me to not learn empathy, become very selfish.
That is a form of abuse.
Anything that restricts your ability to develop a healthy state of mind is a form of abuse.
No but personality disorders are ingrained patterns of thinking. Most of your personality is set in stone until a very young age and my parents had their helicopter social isolation in place until I was out of the house at 18...it's very hard to just throw someone in the real world and say "here. new life". I also got used to being alone.
Demon - I guess it is abuse. But my mother never intended to abuse me I don't think.
My parents were fairly inadequate, but never physically or psychologically abusive. My dad is a fuckin' saint, I don't know how he put up with me, as a child. My mom wasn't around much, but it's not like she abandoned us, she just worked a lot. And I'm sure it was better that way, because she hates kids and is a bit neurotic. My childhood would have been very peaceful I'm sure, if it hadn't been for my own inexplicable moods and behaviors.
I have a minimal/fair amount of mental illness on both sides. Schizophrenia, suicide, etc... Everyone's depressed, but really, who isn't? : P
That being said, I think in all cases, nature predisposes and nurture triggers and exacerbates. To what degree depends entirely on the person and the disorder.