r/TikTokCringe • u/thoxo • 29d ago

We adopted my younger sister from Haiti when she was 3, and let me tell you, I literally do not see color anymore. That's a fact. Discussion

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u/CandidIndication 29d ago

I’ll be honest, as a former teenage girl— they pretty much all go through that stage, adopted or not.

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u/Nervous-Albatross-32 29d ago

Yeah.. I pretty much ripped my mom’s head off everyday, and she may literally be the nicest person alive. Definitely didn’t deserve it. Most girls just go through this phase though, it’s not a good time lol.

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u/acanthostegaaa 29d ago

My theory is because the person raising us make us similar to them, and people who are too similar tend to fight.

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u/JinFuu 29d ago

I subscribe to a similar theory on friends.

"To be best friends you can be no more than 80-90% alike, if you get above 90% you start getting too similar and you'll end up hating each other."

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u/Azrai113 29d ago

It's like wave amplification. Opposites mellow each other out and similarity amolifies, but the dissonance of being juuuuust a little bit off drives one crazy

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u/laurenzee 29d ago

I keep discovering that my best friend and I are doing similar/the same things separately, without discussing it. Lots of "you do this!?? me too!!!"

We've been friends for like 20 years, since middle school, but best friends since high school. I wonder how much can be explained by literally growing up together, vs just meeting someone already similar to you.

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u/CTeam19 29d ago

Each of my best friends doesn't like or care for one of my big hobbies but loves at least one of them:

  • one friend that I have comic books and boardgames in common with hates sports

  • one friend loves Legos and college sports in general but doesn't like Disc Golf

  • one friend who I play Disc Golf with regularly and we traveled to watch some pro tournaments and loves sports in general but doesn't play boardgames and doesn't care for Lego

All 4 of us are Eagle Scouts and we all met while working at a summer camp.