another inappropriate response (cognitive disonance?)

[Guest guest]

Here's an odd trait my nada would exhibit. She would usually get more angry at

me for minor infractions than she would for the really bad things I did! If I

made a mess, was too noisy, dressed myself incorrectly (shirt on backwards,

couldn't tie shoes properly, etc.) or fell and cut my knee, there was hell to

pay. Nada would trigger into a terrifying rage and scream at me, and hit me.

But when I was TRULY horrible to my poor little Sister (I almost drowned her,

when I was 6 and she was 2. And there were other incidents. I should have been

taken to a child psychiatrist, frankly,) it was like, no big deal!!!

Very confusing, to be punished and traumatized over almost nothing and then when

I was being actively malicious, to be just mildly reprimanded??? Its insane. I

was raised by an insane mother and an uninvolved, passive father.

My poor little Sister is lucky to be alive, truly.

-Annie