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How Your Upbringing Shapes Your Personality

How Your Upbringing Shapes Your Personality

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What was your childhood like? There are combinations of different factors acting together to influence you to become the person you are today. So if youre wondering what happened to the shy or outgoing kid you used to be, lets take a look at how your upbringing shapes your personality. If you always feel like the crazy or weird one in your family but you're not sure why, we made a video on the signs you're not crazy, it's your upbringing
Date: 2023-08-20

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I remember the first year of school i had in my entire life, we didn't do work, we just played or learn how to socialise, but there was this kid who didnt let me play with others and if i didnt play with him, he would be really violent (they threatened me that if I didn't play with him, he would pinch me, hit me or even throw big pieces of asphalt at me, and i knew he was capable of doing it bc i've seen him do that before (even seven years later, in sixth grade, we had a violent fight bc he couldnt control his emotions) so even though i really wanned to meet all the new people of my class and the other class, Icouldnt.
With the time he became kind of ( just kind of)a better person and let me made new friends, but i was too used to be with the same person that became a lil bit more introverted. 9 years later, lot of stuff happened, like the pandemic and all, I am now availble seeing my notes online, and apparently also can see my notes of that time, the only thing they evalueted you was communication and socialisation, AND I HAD 70% THATS NOT FEAR AAAAAASAAHHHH ok jk i'm kind of dissapointed for the teachers choosing that note but anyways,
that damn kid made me who I am, but my parents teach me some ways to afront that kid. like fighting him if he hit me again? I never did it, but I made lot of boundaries for myself, I trust others a lil bit less, but still very open to the posiblity that they can be kind, I have some difficulty to talk to new people, but still love meetting others (the people is really interessing in my opinion) and bc of him I became WAY less sensitive, I controle a lot my emotions and learned to not show my fear in front of people, afront them with confidence (and then cry when I'm no one is around if I need lol, but it doesnt happen a lot, so I guess i have to say thanks to him? well i never did, if I accidentely hurted him or hurted himself, i would say it's karma, and it's not enough and he looked at me just like saying I don't blame you.
So now that I am in high school since two years and we arent in the same school anymore, I try to change my personality as I want without him around anymore, its hard but I try, :p, and honestly he didnt let me any trauma despite all the bad things he did ( as verbal and physical )
ps: if you read all this, well thank you: DD ( srry if you don't understand what i wrote, inglish is not my first language and i wrote this super fast )

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From infancy to my early 20s, I lived in a toxic environment where my mother & grandmother (who raised my sisters & I) had the entitlement mentality because theyre the parent & guardian & the things they've done/supposed to do as such, food shortages, money was always tight/viewed as a resolution to everything, moving every year, few months or less into small 2 or 3 bedroom apartments yet there was 6-7 of us, birthdays were treated as a regular day, you weren't taught to be responsible nor received punishment for any trouble you got into (my grades weren't even checked nor asked about, so it was like what was the point of keeping them up if they werent looked at, emotional/mental health & personal issues were overlooked, ignored or mentioned to other family members to have something to gossip about, you couldn't even ask for help, a favor or mention a personal matter without it being used against you later in any fight, fallout or argument, speaking your mind was always confused with disrespect, being told that youre crazy, weird or that somethings wrong with you when expressing your sadness, anger or frustration in any way, your accomplishments didn't matter unless there was some money involved (I wasn't even congratulated for joining DECA back in high school nor was I wished luck on my interview before I was hired because it wasn't an actual job that paid me but it was going to build up my school credits & improve my social life being apart of it, guilt tripped with sayings like you won't be blessed, you'll block your blessings you won't get no luck & that god don't like ugly when theyre called out on their ways or dont get their way & you couldn't even keep or save a dime without being asked for it only to not get it back at all. So music, friends, boyfriends or just getting away were always an escape from it all though I grew to be a bit resentful & have a negative attitude/outlook on life.
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Well, guess there's a lot to unpack here, but let me just say that I pretty much wasn't so lucky with my childhood (I know there's a lot of people who suffered more, don't tell me that.
At first, I think I had a lot of ACEs. I was quite a crybaby, and my grandmother have been yelling, and even hitting me sometimes, cause she didn't like it when someone around her cried. She always kept telling me that I have no right to be sad, cause there's a lot of people who suffered more. Also my mom is very hysterical and a bit controlling. So I basically needed to force myself to stay at my room (and I still wasn't REALLY safe cause my mom have been living there too) and not make ANY sound, or I could get in trouble.
Second is family structure. And well, I pretty much can say that I had no father. He's alive, but my parents divorced when I was 3 and since then he basically never called me and seemed to not care at all. It had consequences cause me and mom were always broke and I basically never knew if tomorrow we're gonna be moving away or we could stay where we are now. And also I had a lot of mental struggles since childhood cause I felt like there were something wrong with me, and that's why father weren't there with me.
Social learning theory was hard cause I never had any close friends. Mostly cause I'm very shy and weird and basically afraid of people, and because I had to change school all the time, so I was a new girl for my whole school life. I only found actual friends when I were in college.
And of course, it was always a bit hard to communicate with people, let alone understanding them, since as I said i didn't have close friends when I was a kid.
Yeah. Sorry if you suffered the same or more than me and right now think that I'm being dramatic. I just felt the need to talk it out a bit

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Where do I begin? I experienced several traumatic events as a child. My mom mostly raised me and my two siblings b/c dad was busy at work. Every now and then when she felt some strong negative emotions, she'd used her kids as a punching bag, hitting and screaming at us while bringing up the past (something she claimed we did and something she experienced before and after she got married. Dad wouldn't defend her against the verbal assaults of some of his siblings and/or their spouses. Occasionally, he'd call her degrading names. The same relatives who harshly and loudly point out our flaws (accused mom of being a failure as a parent and accused me and my siblings of not being successful adults. Neither of my parents would defend their children from such brutal verbal assaults when the three of us were younger. I thought this was just generational/cultural things but I'm beginning to think it's also a power thing as well. I am shy and reserved by nature but due to my childhood traumas, I became even more shy and reserved as well as somewhat wary of other people and their intentions (due to deceptive people I had the misfortune of meeting/knowing. I met some kind-hearted people, began to speak to a therapist (for personal issues relating to childhood traumas and disturbing upbringing) and I gradually became less shy and reserved. I am also determined to not be like my cruel relatives and my parents. I've got a lot of issues to work through and I'm thankful to have met kind-hearted, patient, intelligent, and wise people.
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As much as I appreciate my childhood being free of any traumatic events, my parents were strict with both me and my sister. They were never abusive, but because of how strongly they felt in their beliefs as Christians, they kind of pushed those beliefs onto me. I was never given the choice to be my own person growing up and to have my own beliefs and views. This isn't to say that I resent them for this now at 30 years old, but at age 19, I definitely remember feeling angry for reasons that I couldn't make sense of. If I hadn't gone to therapy, my emotions would probably still be in a state of being stunted in their growth. I've made mistakes, I've hurt some people along the way and I didn't have much awareness of some negative behaviors that manifested themselves because of my anger, like being emotionally manipulative and being a control freak.
I've learned a lot about myself in the last 10-12 years, especially when it comes to my emotions and how my mind works. Having ADD doesn't make these things easy by any means, and I still find myself feeling mentally stuck or lost sometimes, but just knowing how much I've grown helps me to stay focused on my goals and keep going in life

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I wasn't outgoing very much as a elementary schooler, I had only 2 true friends at school, I did interact with others but those 2 were the best for me. In middle school, I became even more introverted, absolutely hated teamwork and was the quiet kid of the class. I didn't have any real friends in middle school. I had a crush on a girl I liked since first grade but ended up really never confessing. I always were getting good grades, friendship didn't really harm me. In fact, I think it was better since I was able to concentrate on my stuff better. I was able to confirm this when a kid that got good grades, suddenly started getting mediocre or bad grades; his friends were always occupying him, making him not be able to concentrate on his studies.
I sometimes do feel lonely, and introversion definitely made me mature much earlier than other kids, but it's also the trait that made the me today.

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I think the only thing thats changed for me is that im calmer when I was a child. I would have fights with my parents when I was younger and looking back my side of the arguments didnt really make sense. My parents are nice people its just that sometimes they misunderstand me and sometimes say things just to get under my skin. Being an introvert is a thing I didnt realize I was until about a year ago, and I always hated how my teachers wanted us all to be extroverted and have lots of friends my parents felt the same way. Dont get me wrong I love having friends just not a whole ton of them. I think what made me an introvert was not really talking to the other kids at a young age and just playing by myself and I got used to it.
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I recently realised that I have a hard time getting along with people who are not like me. I'm introverted and sensitive to rejection and for some reason when I see a person who's extroverted and seemingly arrogant for example I tend to assume that they are going to judge me because I'm the complete opposite of them. I had many bad experiences with people like that in the past and now I have a lot of stereotypes in my head about people and I often find myself assuming that other's don't like me even when I have no evidence of that. I recently learned that this is because of rejection sensitivity. I mean when I tend to always see the signs of other people hating me, when actually they may not.
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My upbringing was surrounded by various parental abuses, physical, mental, peer bullying, financial discrimination, manipulation, abandonment, and being thrown into adulthood at an early age. Most of my life has been a struggle and suicide was on the table during certain events. I have been suffering with C-PTSD for over 40 years. 30 of those years it wasnt apparent to me, it was normal for me to be the helpless victim. I still struggle with the anxiety of my condition in my professional career. It has been harmful to my career advancement. I have learned to live with my condition. Extreme stress has been causing me to have more anxiety attacks than usual.
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Welp am asking for a litle advice on my mental state:
I dont feel any empathy with anyone because if you think a bit about it, we'r only a bunch of chemical reaction, and an human life dont have that much value
I think that the only meaning of life is being happy, because it's what motivate every human behaviour, and i wont hesitate to do anything to be happy, even a bit more, and i just feel lonely, because no one realized this.
I don't care about anything but getting happier.
And welp i am also on the 1% of the highest IQ with 155.

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I was an Emotionally Only Child. My older sister is 5 years older than me, this is because my parents didn't want to deal with 2 babies and switch attention and not have to divide attention. This made that me and my sister only played the most popular of the most popular of video games together. These are Minecraft, LittleBigPlanet 2 and Rayman Legends and literally every interest I had was the opposite of my sister's. That's why nowadays, I have no opinion over my sister, she's just a person that's part of my life.
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I hated my childhood
I was the 1 that had to care for my older n younger siblings also if I didn't do something right I'd get grounded sometimes grounded n beaten until I bled was not a good time then my dad put me into care n fled to never be seen again but I never liked him anyway so it's shaped me into a caring n loving person cuz I don't want people going thru wat I've gone thr however I like being left alone most of the time I don't have friends cuz can't rlly trust people either am a pet person

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I'm clearly QUITE the mixed bag, based on this list of influences. I've had ACES aplenty, most often from school and from dealing with other kids, but also a few from wthin the family and from authorities of all kinds. My family was VERY stable while I was growing up, in the form of a classic nuclear family, but everything around me was in constant motion due to frequent moving. Social learning from kids was nearly ipossible under those conditions, and my parents modelled two very different examples.
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My parents were divorced since the start - and that was not the problem. The problem is my mom, who insults me and screams at me. I will never forgive her. She has health issues, but that doesn't matter. When i was younger, my parents didn't really buy be clothes, so my confidence was low. I just have one friend.
These past years i have started to take my own wellbeing in my own hands. I still have problems, but i'm hopeful You will survive

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I had no upbringing. Though I had perfect parents, I was in and out of hospitals a lot. Nurses and medical doctors brought me up. Thus, I am detached from the masses. My parents diike this. However, it is the way I know. I grew up with no friends, no peers, being part of no group. Thus, I require none. It has actually benefitted me tremendously not to require approval of the herd and to require no company.
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i was heavily sheltered but not because my mom cares about me or something like that but because nobody ever wanted to deal with me everyone gave up on me so easily so i didnt have many friends i wasnt treated the same and i was locked away and forgotten about
i can count the amount of friends i have had on one hand
im not sure what im like as a person or if im even a person at all

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i was heavily sheltered but not because my mom cares about me or something like that but because nobody ever wanted to deal with me everyone gave up on me so easily so i didnt have many friends i wasnt treated the same and i was locked away and forgotten about
i can count the amount of friends i have had on one hand
im not sure what im like as a person or if im even a person at all

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I used to be very kind and emotionally outgoing with the other kids, but very quickly, I was misunderstood by other kids bc of my ADHD and autism. I had weird behaviours, I was rejected, and I didn't understand why. I was bullied during my entire primary and secondary school. 11 long years. Now, I am logical, introverted, and way colder towards other's emotions.
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It would have been nice to have had this type of information available to me when I was younger, (in the 50s and 60s, U. S)but unfortunately it wasnt, but I hope all of you younger people out there appreciate just how important this type of information is and build on this knowledge, thanks for your support in these regard.
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I never had a childhood. I was raised by a covert narcissistic mother and a Alcoholic father. Was Parentified, and was a enmeshed with my mother. No therapy can repair the damages incurred. Not even God will be able to intervene and assist in this situation. The adult child is left alone and no one else really gives a SHIT!
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My traumatic experiences were and are more physical but physical trauma can affect you mentally which is what happened to me but since Ive started watching Psych2go my mental health has improved significantly. Thank you so much Psych2go for helping me realize that Im not alone in my struggles
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I just realized this, but apparently I was a monster when I was 3-4 and I was also being bullied, but my parents would always curse and swear around me, and I picked that behavior up, and apparently my siblings said I was the reason my parents didn't have friends, and it kind of makes sense now
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Hi Psych2go! I really like your job. Can you please make a video about people who can't experience romantic love? I'm 24, and I've never EVER fall in love or had a crush on someone. And it hurts me a bit, a feel like I'm robbed of something important. But I simply can't feel it. What's wrong with me?
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I'm in a state of conflict with my ldr man now: < I though he yelled at me and got scared, he thought I threw a reasonless temper tantrum with my reaction. And my coping mechanism to deal with arguments it to sit and talk out everything. His - to vanish until calmed down. I hate it whenever we argue.
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I believe that my mother changed me a lot. I was a happy, optimistic, energetic, open, friendly and smart kid. In time I completely changed to the opposite. I was so happy back then. I lost a sense of who I am.
Now I work into learning who I am again.

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