We don’t stop being our parent’s children when we turn 18. In the U.S., 18 may be the age of consent and when people are legally recognized as adults, but that does not mean that the influence of their parents suddenly disappears. From birth, a child loves their parent unconditionally. At the very least, the parent is the first a child depends on to learn and navigate the world. Sure, your parent is no longer responsible for you legally; you can be tried for a crime as an adult, and the world treats you as such. But that doesn’t mean that parental influence no longer affects you. Our current understanding of a person’s response to a traumatic experience (i.e., fight, flight, or freeze) doesn’t work the same when it comes to their parent. The prefrontal cortex of a human isn’t fully developed until 25 years old. So it’s unreasonable to think that once a child turns 18, the beliefs, behaviors, and conditioning (traumatic or otherwise) that their parents instilled in them no longer apply. Part of why I share the traumatic details of my life is to highlight the impacts of long-term mental manipulation and abuse. People often question how my father was still abusing me into adulthood, and they hold me accountable. Combined with traumatic experiences as reinforcement of dictated beliefs, a parent has the power to destroy the adulthood of their child. Thousands of people have the sacred responsibility of forming a human; instead, they exploit them in the worst way. My content shines light on issues that negatively affect many people. And I believe the community I’ve built on my platforms will help find solutions.
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