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[quote=Anonymous]From reading this board and the parenting forum in particular, it is clear that people are terrified that the kids will turn out badly if they make mistakes. I was raised by a borderline personality mother and a bipolar narcissistic father (all confirmed diagnoses). I witnessed and was subject to extreme violence and verbal abuse throughout my childhood and we moved constantly.  My parents never went to a single PTA meeting, they did not enroll any of us in preschool, and they never so much as checked my report card.  They stopped cooking for me for the most part once I hit about six years old and I usually went to school without breakfast until I was old enough to make it myself without being late for school.  At age 5, they used to leave me alone at home with my then-two younger siblings who were 3 years old and 9 months old.  My older siblings would be roaming the streets unattended.

Basically, my parents committed every parenting sin you can think of.  I had a really deprived, unsafe childhood.  In the end, me and my five siblings are all attorneys and doctors, except for the black sheep who is a successful entrepreneur.  We count three national merit scholars, four MENSA members, and one Rhodes scholar among us.  We all went to top schools on scholarship.  My HHI is 650k, of which I contribute 400k.

So, AMA.[/quote]

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