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[quote=Anonymous]More laid back. I am more my own person now than when I popped fresh out of my parents' clutches. There was a "Our Way" of doing things or "The Wrong Way."  Different = weird. I was way more judgmental.

Now, if what you do doesn't affect me, I care much less. I will still glare at any smoker as my lungs slowly close and you pollute my air. But the more I meet people I realize what a f***ed up household I came from and how it's OKAY for people to walk by your house and hear laughter, for example. Seriously the littlest things were a HUGE deal in our family - if the kitchen windows were open we had to creep around our house silently and speak in hushed tones lest any neighbor hear ANYTHING we might say (we had no interesting family secrets to discuss - it was more like "Please put granola bars on the grocery list").

So whereas I can hear neighbors laughing and think "Oh that's nice - they're happy!" my mother would say "Ugh, that's SO inappropriate. Don't they have any class?"  Or when our neighbor hung out on hot summer days in her driveway in her bikini for a few hours my mother looked down on her and said she was tacky and flaunting her body. Maybe she WAS proud of her body, and maybe also, my very obese mom was a bit jealous, and not recognizing the neighbor was from a place where everyone hung out on the front stoop before she moved to the neighborhood. [/quote]

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