HorseLord posted:

It's the same as therapy except you don't pay an obscene hourly rate to talk to someone who's not qualified to describe themselves as a psychologist. "getting better" or whatever it is you think you've done is just an elaborate way of tricking yourself into being okay with your situation. It's fraud.

You had a real lovely parent? Doesn't matter if you think that's normal or not. To keep that person in your life when you are an adult is still the choice you have to make. Do or don't.

What is not normal is to place childhood emotional trauma on the same level as someone setting of a doomsday device on purpose. One is being like probably 80% of people who've ever had children, and the other is literally someone attempting to commit the ultimate genocide. There is a bigger picture than catra not being mother's favorite.