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That ended with me finally explaining to him how the way he and my mother treated me as a child, with undiagnosed (and really not even conceptually understood at the time) ADHD caused me lasting trauma that persists to this day. I’m a 45 year old man, and I cried.

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[-] aaaaace@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

They fuck you up, your mum and dad.
They may not mean to, but they do.
They fill you with the faults they had And add some extra, just for you.

But they were fucked up in their turn By fools in old-style hats and coats,
Who half the time were soppy-stern And half at one another’s throats.

Man hands on misery to man. It deepens like a coastal shelf. Get out as early as you can, And don’t have any kids yourself.

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48419/this-be-the-verse

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Larkin

[-] Infynis@midwest.social 1 points 1 week ago

That is a wild choice to put in a collection of poems for Mother's Day lmao

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