07-29-2022, 07:46 PM
Thinking about this more, while they are fairly selfish, I'd argue boomers are also disproportionately sensitive and emotional. Like Xers, they tend to worry a lot about their children and call them to remind them of practical concerns that can either be welcomed by a generation of "mama's boys" or, for those who are more individualistic like myself, be seen as infantilizing.
My boomer parents generally did well by me, but at 31, it's been a long, uphill battle to get them to treat me like an adult. If I push too hard, they would view that as defensive, too little and they would be enabled to continue being infantilizing. I'm saying this less to complain, as much to illustrate that my experience here is typical, and it's not the kind of behavior I would expect from sociopathic people.
The more sociopathic boomers I met tended to be the "sports dad" type, who made a habit of pushing their kids into all manner of sports they weren't interested in and screaming at them any time they wanted something. My own father is pretty much the opposite of that (most of y'all would probably like him), but I butted heads with many such individuals in my time, and it was clear from their reactions that they were not used to people deviating from how they wanted them to behave.
My boomer parents generally did well by me, but at 31, it's been a long, uphill battle to get them to treat me like an adult. If I push too hard, they would view that as defensive, too little and they would be enabled to continue being infantilizing. I'm saying this less to complain, as much to illustrate that my experience here is typical, and it's not the kind of behavior I would expect from sociopathic people.
The more sociopathic boomers I met tended to be the "sports dad" type, who made a habit of pushing their kids into all manner of sports they weren't interested in and screaming at them any time they wanted something. My own father is pretty much the opposite of that (most of y'all would probably like him), but I butted heads with many such individuals in my time, and it was clear from their reactions that they were not used to people deviating from how they wanted them to behave.
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