Quote Originally Posted by tulip View Post
What did, however, is the still present curse of disapproval--the things that I valued as a child were disapproved of by my parents. As a child, that translated into them disapproving of me.
YES!!!! And, their disapproving of my peers, and my learning to ape that disapproval. A constant bizarre dialectic of "I'm so much better than them" and "I'm completely worthless."