Have and raise children.

They raised me 👉😎👉

Also I'm not having kids.

My dad is way better at car maintenance and handy work. Machines just talk to him.

Buy a home for somewhat reasonable percentage of their income and retire ever

Not getting their kid properly checked for ADHD

Handwriting - my god, their handwriting.

Know the monetary value of approximately anything at a glance.

For example, when shopping my dad always knew if a sale was real or if they raised the price first.

Unfortunately he never managed to translate that skill into making money even when he owned a small comic store.

Motivate themselves into action.

Passive aggressive-ism.

Own a home

They successfully don't know Lemmy.

Why is this being asked in the past tense?

Take care of me

My father worked as a builder and a mechanic, so there wasn't much he couldn't fix if he put his mind to it.

My dad can keep a job better than me. He’s had like five jobs, each one for over ten years.

I’ve had like 30 jobs, and the longest for maybe 1.5 years. I’ve been fired a handful of times.

Somehow my father can just find a groove and stick with it. In me a dissatisfaction grows really fast and I waver on things.

Uh, cooking......

Going to college, getting a good job after acquiring a degree, holding that job for decades, retiring, being able to afford a middle-class lifestyle.

They are both intellectually superior to me and my brother, their only children. I'm pretty sure he and I are a bit of a disappointment to both of them, but they would never admit that.

Reproduce

My grandparents raised me mostly and their house is always in order. Particularly washing. I never seem to get to the end of it and also do not enjoy it.

Handy work, talking to people, handwriting

Be an insensitive asshole

Ironing and folding clothes

Driving. They were pros while I haven't even dipped my toes into it.

Earn and communicate with stranger

My mom was relatively successful, without much post highschool education at a time, and sometimes in a field, that were much more difficult for women.

Navigate without a GPS. Really, do much of anything without consulting the internet first. There's a lot of stuff I'm better than them at, but that's because I've almost never had to learn without instructions.

Hit kids.

The "normal" stuff, getting someone to stay with them and marrying them, losing their virginity, living by their own, having kids. I will never reach any of that.

Reproduce. And they were infertile

My mom kept up with her friends from high school and college until she or they died, I cannot.

My dad was ridiculously smart, like could learn anything, keep a lot of knowledge in his head, could look at any idea and really consider it without believing or reacting to it, if that makes sense. I don't have the same fearlessness.

Moving me tf away from the part of town I was being raised in... or, alternatively: not having a distant father. You can't teach a boy what they need over just one weekend. FFS.

Trusting the official sources of information, understanding what a person ought to do in life, see a value of their jobs, believing in controversial things.

Their profession.

I didn't go to medical school and am in a different industry than them.