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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP again. I think it sounds self-centered and juvenile. Like they are not aware that THEIR mom isn’t “Mom” to everyone they are talking to. My children probably referred to me as “Mom” when talking to other people when she was 2 because to her it was my whole identity.   But by the time she was 3 she was aware that most people also have someone they call “Mom,” so she switched to “my mom” when referring to me. I think adults who have never made that switch have some peculiar perspective-taking flaw going on.[/quote]

Let's unpack this.  You know, and they know, that you have different moms.  Yet you're indignant that they're not referencing the existence of your mom by differentiating her from their own mom, in a statement about their mom, and that's proof that [i]they're[/i] self-centered.

You're essentially yelling "what about MY mom" in your head the whole time they're talking their mom (and then going online to yell "but what about MY mom" at us), simply because they called her mom and not "my mom"?  This is truly not how most people engage in conversations.

I say "my mom", btw.[/quote]

I don’t feel indignant. I feel judgmental of their brand of innocent narcissism. [/quote]

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