Paramount Picutres / Via 13.and damned if you didn't.Įpitome Pictures / Via 14. When it comes to sex, you were damned if you did. Being strong was more important than being gentle with yourself.Ī lot of millennial women are finding that as parents and professionals, they're liable to take on more than they can handle because they were taught to take care of everyone and get everything done. Still have to talk yourself into making a simple phone call for a manicure or a doctor's appointment? You're not the only one. Others had parents who were debilitating-levels of involved in their lives.Ĭomment from discussion MerylSquirrel's comment from discussion "What do kids with helicopter parents look like as adults?". My parents called me “dramatic” and that I supposedly cried for everything, till this day they still have no idea I have anxiety. They also encouraged us to go into debt for our education. Great that they didn't tell us we couldn't do it, but they sure worked to try and stop us behind the scenes. Millennial girls were taught girls could grow up to be anything - but were discouraged from actually pursuing that. So much of what our parents preached taught us to put others' needs before our own, to shrink and diminish ourselves for the comfort of men, and that our lives could only look a handful of ways. Many millennial women grew up being taught rules that were straight-up toxic. Being a woman on top of it has been ~an experience~.
It desensitized us to a lot and left most of us pretty vulnerable entering adulthood.
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In our first 15 years of life, most of us saw at least two wars play out, watched an international terrorist attack unfold on TV before our eyes, learned how to use the internet, and then had to teach our parents.the list goes on.