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The craziness that is my mother in law...Will I ever learn?
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<blockquote data-quote="susiestar" data-source="post: 497533" data-attributes="member: 1233"><p>This is why we had a garage. For all that koi to live in and be celebrated in. I can remember going through a box in our basement when I was about 10. Gma had brought it over and my parents had just put it down in the storage section of the basement (our basement had 3 sections - half was mostly storage and for when there was tornadoes, 1/4 was for the laundry and my mom's sewing stuff, and 1/4 was for Dad's shop equipement (tablesaw, tools, etc.). At the time my dad was all over us about grades, and had told stories of what his grades were, how he got into trouble if they were Bs, etc... I found his kdg report card. He flunked. He was out most of the year with chicken pox and strep throat. He also had comments about being "difficult" and some other not so great things.</p><p></p><p>I got a LOT more slack after I found those. Mostly I wasn't in trouble because I liked school and did well, but now and again I did something considered "antisocial" like telling a kid I would chew his face off if he didn't stop sticking it into my business. He was bullying me and it wasn't a smart thing for a dumb kid to try. He was way too easy to scare and I had few problems carrying through on things if the bullies didn't leave me alone. I was small and cute and sweet and rarely got angry, but if I said I would do something if you didn't stop/leave me alone, I would do it. I didn't threaten. For some reason having the little cute kid snap and punch you like a pro boxer was scarier to people than having the big class bully do it. I still don't get that one, but i have my own aspie traits. </p><p></p><p>The big reason I got a lot less pressure from my dad was because the threat wasn't that I would tell people, it was that I would tell gfgbro. Then gfgbro would use it to justify his own horrible behavior. I was smart enough to use the threat of revealing it gfgbro to get what i wanted, rather than actually telling gfgbro and watching him use it as a reason to implode and fight with our dad over grades and if they were important or not.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="susiestar, post: 497533, member: 1233"] This is why we had a garage. For all that koi to live in and be celebrated in. I can remember going through a box in our basement when I was about 10. Gma had brought it over and my parents had just put it down in the storage section of the basement (our basement had 3 sections - half was mostly storage and for when there was tornadoes, 1/4 was for the laundry and my mom's sewing stuff, and 1/4 was for Dad's shop equipement (tablesaw, tools, etc.). At the time my dad was all over us about grades, and had told stories of what his grades were, how he got into trouble if they were Bs, etc... I found his kdg report card. He flunked. He was out most of the year with chicken pox and strep throat. He also had comments about being "difficult" and some other not so great things. I got a LOT more slack after I found those. Mostly I wasn't in trouble because I liked school and did well, but now and again I did something considered "antisocial" like telling a kid I would chew his face off if he didn't stop sticking it into my business. He was bullying me and it wasn't a smart thing for a dumb kid to try. He was way too easy to scare and I had few problems carrying through on things if the bullies didn't leave me alone. I was small and cute and sweet and rarely got angry, but if I said I would do something if you didn't stop/leave me alone, I would do it. I didn't threaten. For some reason having the little cute kid snap and punch you like a pro boxer was scarier to people than having the big class bully do it. I still don't get that one, but i have my own aspie traits. The big reason I got a lot less pressure from my dad was because the threat wasn't that I would tell people, it was that I would tell gfgbro. Then gfgbro would use it to justify his own horrible behavior. I was smart enough to use the threat of revealing it gfgbro to get what i wanted, rather than actually telling gfgbro and watching him use it as a reason to implode and fight with our dad over grades and if they were important or not. [/QUOTE]
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