Comments on: Nature Vs. Nurture http://nmallory.exit-23.net/20060330/nature-vs-nurture & Other Discombobulated Thoughts Fri, 09 Jan 2009 02:31:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1.3 By: Anne http://nmallory.exit-23.net/20060330/nature-vs-nurture#comment-1959 Anne Fri, 31 Mar 2006 14:50:52 +0000 http://nmallory.exit-23.net/20060330/nature-vs-nurture#comment-1959 I'm quite the oppisite. I give my parents the blame for the utter hell that was my childhood, but don't tend to give them the positives of the life we led, unless I stop and think about it a bit. I should do that more often. Life's not all one-sided, god knows. But...it's hard. It's really, really hard. I’m quite the oppisite. I give my parents the blame for the utter hell that was my childhood, but don’t tend to give them the positives of the life we led, unless I stop and think about it a bit. I should do that more often. Life’s not all one-sided, god knows.
But…it’s hard. It’s really, really hard.

]]> By: n. mallory http://nmallory.exit-23.net/20060330/nature-vs-nurture#comment-1970 n. mallory Sat, 01 Apr 2006 15:43:48 +0000 http://nmallory.exit-23.net/20060330/nature-vs-nurture#comment-1970 I really wanted to stop and think before responding to your comment. I wonder sometimes if I'm in some sort of denial, but I do truly believe that everything my parents did, they did out of love and that I didn't grow up in an abusive home. I admit that it was dysfunctional, though I think all families have some dysfunction. That's not to say that they aren't to blame in any way for how I turned out, but certainly they aren't completely to blame either. After all, I'm not a bad person, just a little mentally off, right? However, I recognize that there are others that do not have the benefit of my situation. I have on friend who did in fact grow up in a very abusive family and who never saught any help and probably should and it's clear that her parents really should take quite a bit of the blame in her case. I really wanted to stop and think before responding to your comment. I wonder sometimes if I’m in some sort of denial, but I do truly believe that everything my parents did, they did out of love and that I didn’t grow up in an abusive home. I admit that it was dysfunctional, though I think all families have some dysfunction. That’s not to say that they aren’t to blame in any way for how I turned out, but certainly they aren’t completely to blame either. After all, I’m not a bad person, just a little mentally off, right?

However, I recognize that there are others that do not have the benefit of my situation. I have on friend who did in fact grow up in a very abusive family and who never saught any help and probably should and it’s clear that her parents really should take quite a bit of the blame in her case.

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