Ever look back on your childhood and go wow, this is COMPLETELY THE OPPOSITE of how to teach someone how to become a competent, adaptive adult?

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I'm mostly really stuck here, about how basically I was taught that I was dumb as a post, *and* being told that I was smart/gifted/bright/etc, but *only* in the context of how I needed to do/understand/resolve tasks (right up to the point that I failed, which served as proof of how fucking stupid I was), not as actual praise.

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