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Why is it that every time the experts say a child needs a father to grow up to be a good, clever, upstanding member of society, I want to kill?
Oh yeah, 'cause I never had one. And despite my male role models as a child being a scaffolder and his friends, and a know-it-all who always made me feel bad, I think I've turned out okay.
I'm clever, witty, reasonably musical. I can write and converse, I'm good with people, in fact I'm a damn sight better than a lot of people I know who did have a nuclear family.
But the real reason it annoys me so much is because it hurts my Mother. I know she feels a little guilty about me not having a normal upbringing, I do have to keep telling her I'm much happier this way.
And it's not her fault.
I wish so-called-experts would stop talking and publishing such utter crap.
I am who I am, not because I don't have a father, but because I have the most fantastic mother on the whole planet.
Grrrr.
Your normal happy Red will be returned forthwith, I just needed to get that out of my system.
Oh yeah, 'cause I never had one. And despite my male role models as a child being a scaffolder and his friends, and a know-it-all who always made me feel bad, I think I've turned out okay.
I'm clever, witty, reasonably musical. I can write and converse, I'm good with people, in fact I'm a damn sight better than a lot of people I know who did have a nuclear family.
But the real reason it annoys me so much is because it hurts my Mother. I know she feels a little guilty about me not having a normal upbringing, I do have to keep telling her I'm much happier this way.
And it's not her fault.
I wish so-called-experts would stop talking and publishing such utter crap.
I am who I am, not because I don't have a father, but because I have the most fantastic mother on the whole planet.
Grrrr.
Your normal happy Red will be returned forthwith, I just needed to get that out of my system.
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Date: 2004-01-24 09:09 pm (UTC)