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You have to be very careful in how you balance bringing this to a resolution. Far too many parents don’t understand the personality and temperament of their own children, and the worst ones always commit the same cardinal mistake: they end up parenting the child they were growing up, and not the one they have. As a parent, you may think just because your child has similarities to you that means they are you. A zebra and a horse both have 4 legs and a tail, but a zebra is not a horse.
People’s constant attempts to encourage pushing me in various directions when I was younger only ever achieved nothing but intensifying my resistance and dislike for everything they were trying to impress upon me. It wasn’t until they finally just gave up (not through any moral epiphanies, just age and being fatigued by time) they just found themselves without the strength to continue to try and cram their garbage down my throat; that I actually had the breathing room to explore these things on my own terms and time, and finally got around to finding interest in enjoyment in what they wanted to expose me to.
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