> My HN comments are not perfect prose, nor are they intended to be.
Oh well, I guess if it can't be perfect then no one has a license to tell you the reasonable reading of your words is completely different from what you meant. Improvement is only for those who don't think in binary terms.
I will say, growing up most of us have encountered that 1 kid who is just a bit weird due to the way his or her parents were raising them. I say this because that linked comment and your last paragraph display a belief of normalness that isn't normal. I'm sure it's your lived experience but I'm just as sure that's part of the problem with having parents who don't understand safety vs independence.
And as I said in the other comment, we're done here. Your thought process is all over the place and I think most of it is a difficulty to communicate and I'm not in the mood to even try.
"is your claim that the firstborn child stops being the firstborn child when another child is born?" is not a reasonable reading of my words in any way, shape, or form. It's an absolutely absurd reading.
> I will say, growing up most of us have encountered that 1 kid who is just a bit weird due to the way his or her parents were raising them.
How is this relevant? I'm not denying it, just wondering what exactly it's supposed to prove, if anything. My only claim is that the family-size psychological theory proposed by the OP is not true.
> I'm not in the mood to even try.
That much is obvious, given your aforementioned absurd interpretation.
> "is your claim that the firstborn child stops being the firstborn child when another child is born?" is not a reasonable reading of my words in any way, shape, or form. It's an absolutely absurd reading.
which is why I asked for clarification. Just because what you said is ridiculous doesn't mean I should know what you meant.
your communication sucks, get better at it. or don't, but the feedback has been given.
Oh well, I guess if it can't be perfect then no one has a license to tell you the reasonable reading of your words is completely different from what you meant. Improvement is only for those who don't think in binary terms.
I will say, growing up most of us have encountered that 1 kid who is just a bit weird due to the way his or her parents were raising them. I say this because that linked comment and your last paragraph display a belief of normalness that isn't normal. I'm sure it's your lived experience but I'm just as sure that's part of the problem with having parents who don't understand safety vs independence.
And as I said in the other comment, we're done here. Your thought process is all over the place and I think most of it is a difficulty to communicate and I'm not in the mood to even try.