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Can you imagine in your wildest dreams that I like prawns at age 37, even though I hated them as a child? My mother can not.

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OrangeAid · 25/07/2023 10:32

My mom is an odd-bod.

It seems beyond her comprehension that people change as they get older, particularly as they move from children to adults.

Last night I told her I was having prawn curry for tea. She was genuinely shocked to the core that I eat prawns because I never used to like them.

I've always liked prawns, says I.
Nope, she says. And then recounts a story from when I was nine years old and I tried a prawn and didn't like it.

A while back, my dog was sick from both ends at the same time in the kitchen. I was telling my mom about the military operation to clean up and she was, again, really shocked that I did it because I was so squeamish when I was younger. I was lost for words. I mean aside from the fact there's no other option (I'm not just going to leave the kitchen covered in dog vomit and shit), I'm not the same person that I was when I was twelve.

Anyone else's mom or dad like this? She's otherwise a perfectly normal human being!

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Chuffaluffa · 30/07/2023 20:58

My mum seems stuck in her own childhood, which is very weird- I don’t think mine exists to her but she repeatedly draws parallels between my kids’ education and hers, which is wild because she’s 75 this year and was a teacher for 20 years so must appreciate somewhere that the education system has changed since she was taught by the nuns in a convent.

FictionalCharacter · 31/07/2023 16:19

TakeMeToKernow · 25/07/2023 10:55

Even my SDCs have picked up on it!

My mum will call me a “daft” “wally” “bimbo” “ditsy”, which my SDCs are 🤨 about, because that’s not the adult they know.

That’s really not ok for her to speak to you like that.

thecatsthecats · 31/07/2023 16:49

DarkSpark · 25/07/2023 10:54

I threw a tantrum when I was 6 because I didn't want to get the bus and asked my auntie to call a taxi instead. I am 38 and still notoriously a spoiled brat who thinks I'm too good for a bus and takes taxies everywhere I go 🙄 this is according to the same aunt who hasn't stepped foot on public transport herself in the intervening 30+ years.

I also get body shop mango body butter and associated products quite frequently from my mum because it's my 'favourite', I haven't used it since I was about 14 but nothing will convince her otherwise.

I don't like busses, and my MIL knows this about me from about the age of 25, and she still acts with incredulous surprise to hear that I catch the odd bus now and then age 34!

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