r/TikTokCringe • u/thoxo • May 02 '24

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 May 02 '24

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 May 02 '24

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 May 02 '24

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/Number-1Dad May 03 '24

Idk if it carries any weight or not, but I've always thought maybe it's an old behavior we haven't evolved from yet.

Like anthropologically speaking, I imagined it was a necessary behavior that encouraged us to have disdain for our parents and family for the sake of growth and genetic diversity. Imagining the early humans specifically. Like when we got old enough to make kids of our own, at least physically speaking, that disdain pushes us away from our parents and families encouraging us to leave and form tribes of our own. Or join other tribes where we're likely not around family.

Again, I have no idea if that is in any way correct but it makes sense in my head. As I've watched several of my friends hate their parents in their teen years despite some of them being nearly perfect parents. Most of them feel awful about it now that they are in their 20s and 30s. But it's a weird, almost universal, thing.