Life lesson: How a parent can still destroy you in one sentence.

[darksideofstorm]

Father: [looking over with a you-are-in-my-personal-space frown] Have you brushed your teeth today?

Yes, actually, but I shall go drown myself in mouthwash for your personal comfort anyway. Thanks ever so.

It is amazing how no matter how old and self-confident I get (I wear actual shirts now, instead of twenty-four hour hoodies), I still feel

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[anonymous]

I feel as though what you need is a hug, but I have an issue.

You've sucessfully made me laugh at your pain.

It's in a sympathetic way, of course. Parents ARE always like that. I have an eighty year old grandmother who can send my mother into pillow biting tizzies after one phone call.

... But the rest is still funny. I'm sorry the shine is off of 2010 for you, maybe you two can rekindle over the next long weekend?

[darksideofstorm]

*cracks up* Well thak you, mysterious anonymous person, I'm glad I could make your day a little brighter. Or, y'know, reveal you have issues.

EMBRACE THEM. IT IS THE FIRST STEP TO HEALING.

And seriously, 2010 better bring me a damn decent make-up gift for this. A porsche would do.

[muphinmadness]

*pets*

It gets better, somewhat, somehow, at some-piont. I hope.

Anyway, *pets*.

[darksideofstorm]

Thank you. I feel all fuzzy and reassured now.

[nezumiko]

Left side of the body is supposed to map to the feminine, in most alternative health practices. Issues with femininity, much? For the record, the majority of my injuries have been on the left, too. I've broken my left knee, wrist, & 2 fingers on my left hand. My left wrist has worse RSI than right. Left knee has worse arthritis/cartilage damage (breaking it probably didn't help). Left side of my urinary tract had congenital malformation (corrected with surgery when I was 21) and I'm still prone to left-sided kidney infections. Yeah. Um, issues with femininity much, Nezu?

I repeat the assertion that yeah, you never, ever outgrow that. You learn to recognize it's happening and take care of the wounds before they fester, but parents have some kind of auto-targeting that guarantees them a hit for just about every shot they take.

Wrist: there are some exercises you can do to help with RSI. Which side of your wrist is hurting? I get RSI in my wrists on the sides closest to my thumbs due to my bastardised, self-taught not-quite-

[darksideofstorm]

Of course it is. I should have guessed. *facepalm* My left side is certainly my weaker side. I'm right-handed, always step off with my right foot, have stronger vision in my right eye, etc etc

but parents have some kind of auto-targeting that guarantees them a hit for just about every shot they take.

Best explanation for that ever.

Wrist: Pretty much any way I twist it makes it hurt to some degree, but it's strongest when I twist it from side to side. I know I bend my hand inwards when I type. I don't seem to be raising my thumb though. *watches hands for a moment and makes a monstrous amount of typos*

[kilerkki]

My roommate had issues with her wrist (she types a LOT at her job) and so started wearing a brace. After a few weeks, she had no problems at all.

Also, not to be persnickety, but... How on earth do alternative health practitioners figure out that left = feminine? We have good studies to correlate the left side of the brain with logical thinking and so on, but saying that you get injured more on your left side because you've got issues with femininity makes about as much sense as saying you get injured on your left side because left = sinister and therefore you're evil. For the record, I burned my left hand yesterday with boiling water. I put some burn ointment on it immediately, and this morning I didn't even have a blister. If you're prone to burns, I highly recommend getting some of that stuff.

[darksideofstorm]

Hmm, thanks! If it continues, I'll look into that.

*so amused at your version of not-persnickety* I have no idea. It's not my theory. But I also think it's perfectly logical for the human psyche to develop correlations that involve large numbers of people, and are passed on generationally -- religion, for example, which makes almost no sense to me, but many people experience direct healing by.

So, yes, I guess you could decide via cultural osmosis that the left side of your body is attuned to more female rhythms, because people are inclined to think in a male/female binary, and if you have a problem with the femaleness in you and react to such in a typically self-destructive way, you could snap a wrist.

Or whatever.

Prone to burns: not so much. I'm more prone to doing myself bizzare injury when I try to rush through tasks. But I'm glad your hand is unblistered!

[minumi_hime]

Yikes. >.< Feel better soon.

[darksideofstorm]

Oh, seriously.

[minumi_hime]

Omg. Your icon. Its so precious. *cuddles madly*

[jbmcdragon]

STOP HURTING YOURSELF. There, that should take care of that. ;-D (Perhaps you should never date a butch woman, if it's problems with femininity. THE LACK OF GIRLINESS WILL CAUSE YOUR LEFT SIDE TO BECOME PARALYZED. *runs!*)

As for parents, yeah, that's an always thing. I think part of it is we get so used to being in the kid-role, it's also hard to break out of that and remember we're all adults, now. Good luck. ;)

J

[darksideofstorm]

*dies* Yes. Thank you. All fixed now. (HA, THAT'S WHAT YOU THINK. I would just subvert the feminity in my left side and MAKE IT AWESOME.)

Oh, I can believe that. I did have a moment recently with dad when I realized I was slouching way down, trying to make myself smaller, and straightened up like whoa. It's amazing what just throwing your shoulders back can do for your mindframe.