• ameancow@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    As a ruined brand-new life almost a half century ago, I endorse this message. I promise ya’ll would have been FINE without me.

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      4 days ago

      I would have been fine without me too. I was an accident, which is fine, as far as I’m aware it hasn’t really changed anything. But from religious trauma and all that, I actively wished I hadn’t of been born as a kid.

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        3 days ago

        Sorry to hear that, I know the feeling and it sucks. It’s better after growing up and starting your own life and making your own way, and I hope you’re proceeding in that direction.

        My parents reminded me every “anniversary” of when they changed their mind in the clinic and decided not to end my mother’s pregnancy. I heard that story from my earliest days and never understood why they told me that over and over at the time. I get it now, and I feel more pity for my late parents than myself anymore. Some people are completely incapable of being adult enough to bring a new life into the world with actual responsibility and care, whatever the circumstances were for that life coming into being.

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          2 days ago

          Thanks for the response and kind words.

          That last part is pretty much why I don’t have kids. Well, and just remembering what it was like for me growing up. I like to think if I didnhave kids they’d be better off than myself, since I wouldn’t force any nonsense down their throat, including but not limited to, worthless without y and threats of eternal suffering.