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I don’t disagree. But I’ll put it this way: Often a person who is exploiting claims of trauma for gain is still genuinely traumatized. They’ve just learned that dishonesty and playing the sympathy card delivers (at least very temporarily) the desired balm for their damaged brains. These actions are wrong and only hurt them (and others) more.You're not wrong, but it's also easy for a lot of kids to quickly embrace any refusal of their whims as "traumatic abuse" if they can gain something from it.
Once you’re of age (and if you’re not literally retarded) it’s your responsibility— and ONLY your responsibility — to deal with your issues. The problem is so many damaged people believe someone is going to come along and save them whether it’s “the one” or the government. Indeed, they believe they “deserve” to be saved and “shouldn’t have to” make their own efforts. To coin a phrase, they believe they have earned this “superior future.”
So, like Bob here, they continue to blame others and focus on how unfair life has been to them. Lather, rise, repeat. That’s why — barring a transcendent, revelatory experience — he’ll always be miserable. Always. After all:
