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What was the worst thing your parents said to you and why?

I lied to my dad about going to my friends for a sleepover but we went to a concert that I wasn't allowed to go to and smoking weed. My dad went OFF ON ME BIG TIME. He screamed at me and said, "I worked my ass off providing for this family and you're doing this stupid shit?! I can't even look at you right now! You lied in my face and I tried to keep you from prison! If you were latina or black, you would have gotten it worse!!! I was stupid for ever trust you! You know better! Go to your room! I can't even look at you right now!"
Then he gave me a hard lesson about lying and sneaking out. I was 15. I was grounded for a LONG TIME. My dad gave me brutal hard talk about it. He got on be bad. I wish my dad didn't have to be so blunt. I never did that again.

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greenmountaingal · 80-89, F

My mother said so many godawful, terrible things to me over the years that I even wouldn't know where to begin. Here are a couple of examples:

When I was in my 40s, an established award winning teacher working in a juvenile detention center, with three college degrees, all with honors, including one grad degree, all earned on my own without her help or encouragement (in fact, she threw away my mostly completed notes for my graduate thesis in the departing garbage truck and smiled triumphantly when I discovered it), she told me that she had no respect for me "because respect has to be earned and you've never earned it."

Here is one she stated frequently:

"All my friends have wonderful daughters...and I have you."