I was mentally ill and needed help and my parents were just sick of me and tried to minimize interaction with me. I watched my older sister go through the developmental milestones, learn to drive, go to parties, go to uni, but for example when I asked my dad to teach me to drive he just said "No" once loudly. Then my mom died and I was left alone with dad and he sunk into depression with me.Reddit and feminists come here all the time to tell us everything is our fault and to blame ourselves instead of other people or society, but that's what I've been doing all my life when in reality my upbringing was pretty fucked up. Though I suppose as an adult I now have a responsibility to act, I will do so with the knowledge my parents were not good people, my teachers, healthcare workers, the mental healthcare system, normies and society in general, is not good. Liberty and democracy and social welfare and all those nice things, as they stand, are just self serving mob rule, when the mob sniffs out you are not one of them they turn on you.
Having a depressed parent is shockingly rare. You'd think it'd be more common but most dysfunction comes from a power imbalance. If your mom or dad are just sad sacks of shit then you literally don't have a chance at anything. Imagine having a child and then feeling sorry for yourself lmao what a world
