myTakes: Family & Friends

Things I wish I truly understood before reaching adulthood

Transitioning into adulthood was incredibly rough for me. Mounting anxieties, mental illness, and being on the Autistic Spectrum only compounded these issues further. If you are nearing adulthood or have just graduated...
ForevrLonely29
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Agree or disagree? Sadness is the mind's way of healing from trauma

I was pretty sad recently....what helped me get over it was recognizing that EVERYONE is dealing with the same problems. Everyone has sad moments. That got me thinking about the purpose of sadness. I remembered a saying...
Anonymous
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7 Types of People I Can't Stand in My Life

Here are 7 types of people I dislike in a social setting. If you are open minded or interested, I invite you to read myTake. 1. People Who Butchers My Name I can't stand people who butchers my name in any shape or form...
Shiningtempest
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Here are the signs that people don't respect you.

1) Constant questions about your personal life. When people are constantly nosing around your personal business and personal life, it means they don't respect the life choices you've made. You tell them and then they...
jeffend888
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Ways my life is changing for better

You probably heard the phrase: "life is what you make from it". I somewhat agree with that phrase. Sometimes there's to much going on, to the point of heavily influencing a sure mental and physical breakdown. I believe...
DiegoO
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Venting about my dad

I completely cut my dad off for the rest of my life. He probably has Aspergers but he never cared enough to even go talk to someone even when people tried to help him. He destroyed our family and still hasn't changed at...
Lynx122
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An important note to all those who want to be parents. Or even those who have just become parents. From a 22-year-old guy.

If you want to give some good or valuable information, just try to convey it to your kids as politely, and even more strategically as possible. See, for any information to be successfully conveyed, understood and applied...
The_Shadow_Dweller
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I don’t connect with new people very well. I don’t think that will ever change, and that’s OK

I’ll start with some background on myself. My parents got divorced when I was very young. I lived with my mom from ages 4-13 and only saw my dad on weekends. I was an only child until age 10. When I was in school, I was a...
RobEdelman
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November 3rd, 2022: Ten Full Years Now Since She Passed Away

You know, I died twice in my life already. The first time was when I was 18, and I learned I would never actually physically grow up. I never got my long awaited growth spurt. I never moved an inch beyond the midget,...
MCheetah
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myReview

Six Important Rules I Live By

Here are 6 important rules I live by. If you are interested in the rules I live by, I encourage you to read my post. 1. Don't Associate with People Who Get My Name Wrong I strongly despise people who get my name wrong...
Shiningtempest
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Dislike of children is reasonable

Controversial opinion, or not? A disclaimer: Children have equal moral worth to adults, I wish children nothing but love, respect, and it is never ever justified to harm a child. Just in case you think I am suggesting...
NicknameShirt
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Can You Resonate With This?

All life, at all times, only ever existing in the moment; relief from the distresses of less kindhearted approaches to life, and the nurturing of the desire in each of us to come to grow wholesomely and enduringly, are...
flautistnaturist
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Milestone Birthdays

I had a shitty childhood. It wasn't really anyone's fault, I went to Disney a lot and my parents loved me and I was a good looking kid. But I was always lonely. Psychologists say that a kid has until the age of 4 to learn...
Anonymous
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Mytake Part 1 - The effects of my childhood spankings

With so many topics rumbling about, what better subject then to address a topic that has happened to myself? When it comes to the topic of whether spanking is an effective means of child discipline, you typically either...
Anonymous
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Today's Parents Will Never Be Like Yesterday's Parents

Today's parents are at the very least dysfunctional. They generally carry the psychopathic traits of an authoritarian parent and the narcissistic traits of a permissive or uninvolved parent. Modern parents in the US are...
hostboy__fastestlaps
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How I would raise my daughter, when I have one

I'm 17, so this mytake is hypothetical, but this is how I would raise my daughter, when I have one. I wouldn't force my daughter to do these things, but I wish that she would do them. This would mainly come when my...
Nadim171
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How Mothers Do Their Own Damage to Our Children

As a society we often still want to place blame on fathers or the lack of fathers for why our kids have issues or grow up to have them. And in reality that is neither fair or accurate. We forget that there is also another...
ManOnFire
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My dad was super controlling my whole life and now that I'm moving on my own to get away from him I hardly know how to do anything

I'm legally blind, i do things slowly and messily. but my dad pulled them out of my hands and emasculated me my whole life, didn't give me the time to do them and always corrected me often before i even had a chance to do...
Anonymous
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Financial and patrimonial violence: how they affected my life.

One of the MyTakes I wrote, expose a vague explanation of how those two types of violence affected my life. To help you understand this MyTake and the previous one, is important to know their exact definition. ❗What is...
DiegoO
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Guide to being the center of attention or getting the most attention of your friends, people and family

- Being the loudest person in the room always - Tease yourself at times(Use a pause line for like 4 seconds for jokes) - Tell present stories with a variety of voices(feminine and stuff lol) - When you speak and...
DelayedMist
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