• Sarmyth@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    Your life experience is actually so extreme that you don’t know exactly how hard it is or how much it sucks. Your experience is not going to be representative of 99.9% of the populace.

    You should basically never use your family life experiences growing as a reference point because of how extremely unusual it is. This is the equivalent of complaining about how hard it is to drive around town in the truckasaurus.

    Unless you are intentionally misrepresenting a foster home, which is again different than having your own child or 2.

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      11 months ago

      I don’t think that’s a great analogy.

      Driving a monster truck on a tiny road will give you a lot of life experience about driving safely. It’s the same when you have to do a lot of parenting and have no other choice. I have more practical experience rearing children than most people on this thread, guaranteed.

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        11 months ago

        It actually won’t, but if you own it, you’ll find lots of excuses to use it anyway and rationalize it to others.