Dismantling the Lies of Abusive Parents Masterlist
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- Giving you food and clothing is the bare minimum
- You don’t owe gratitude for food and clothes you needed as a child
- You had the right for basic resources
- Parents shaming you for costing money is ironic and stupid
- What it means when they say ‘This is MY house’
- My house = my rules is blackmail
- Children don’t owe absolute obedience for being fed and sheltered
Physical abuse
- You are allowed to refuse any touch, not only violence
- If they ‘don’t know they’re hurting you’, why do they ignore or punish you when you protest?
- Hitting children is irrational and doesn’t work
- You cannot ‘provoke’ your parents to abuse you if they’re not abusive
- Why do parents actually hit, manipulate and traumatize children
Blatant Lies
- Care, nurture and affection do not make you weak
- They’re lying when they say it ‘wasn’t that bad’‘
- You wouldn’t have grown up spoiled if not for abuse
- You got too affected by it’ is a lie
- Your parents are not ‘just too emotionally immature’ to understand abuse
- ‘You’re not living in the real world!’ is nonsense
- You’re not worthless, a burden, ungrateful, or stupid, and your parents know that.
- Constant undermining of your accomplishments is abuse
- Not being allowed to talk about the past is symptom of abuse
- Parents who want you to be happy vs look happy
- You are not abusive for resisting abuse
- When they claim ‘they didn’t mean it’, it’s still abuse
- Your parents are responsible for their own actions regardless of how badly they try to shift blame on you
Psychological abuse
- Blind Obedience is not required in a healthy upbringing
- Disgust is a weapon abusive parents use on their kids
- If they say they love you, but walk all over your feelings, they don’t
- Parents don’t have the right to enter your room to scream at you
- Parents insisting for you to be ‘tough’ are doing it to hide the trauma
- Even if a kid acts like ‘they can take it’, it’s still abuse
- Pretending abuse is discipline will leave children permanently scarred
- It’s inhumane to control and shame children’s reactions to abuse
- Why don’t you already know this? vs Teaching you necessary skills
- Acting like they’ll change is escape sabotage
- Parents are responsible for protecting children from harm
- References to how healthy parenting looks like
- Not being allowed to be angry with your parents is psychological abuse
- If parents want you to act way you did when you were little, they’re dangerous
- Threats about how hard your life will be later on, are bad for you
- Lack of continuity and ever-changing rules will cause anxiety
- Forced obedience will lead you to abusive relationships
- Parents acting like you’re a ‘bad’ is a shame tactic to control you
- There’s healthy and abusive ways to give children chores
- Revisioning the past and insisting you remember it wrong is gaslighting
- If your parents make you suicidal, they’re abusive
- Parents threatening ‘they could be worse’ is abuse
- Always assuming the worst intentions for your actions is wrong
- Keeping children hostage in abuse is torture
If this hits home, also read Recognizing Abuse Masterlist