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Originally posted by graphicsbytia
Trixi, has it ever occured that your personality was in fact already formed at 13?
People don't just change all of a sudden when they hit 13, it sounds to me like there was a lot more going on than your parents just letting you decide things for yourself when you turned 13.
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My personality WAS already formed. I am very dominant, independent, and self-sufficient. But my lifetime choices hadn't been made yet. When I was 12 I wanted to be a teacher. My dad had to buy a pregnancy test when I was 15 (luckily I wasn't pregnant). What happened in those few years? My parents thought that they could guide me in the right direction while giving me freedom. This was a mistake. They thought everything was fine because I was such a good student and courteous.
As an adult, I'm a sex addict. My chosen occupation is as a stripper. It could be worse, at least I didn't choose to be a hooker or a porn star, but that's more because of safety issues than underlying morales. As I said, I don't blame them for this. At the same time, I suspect if they had continued treating me like a child instead of an adult, maybe I wouldn't have chosen this. It only took 2 years of them allowing me to be my own person for me to change this much. They shouldn't have allowed me as much freedom as they did at such a young age.
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Originally posted by graphicsbytia
And why do you say your parents aren't proud of you? Did they tell you that?
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Yes. They are proud that I'm successful and can support myself, but they are NOT proud of how I do it. They have said so.