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DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• AeonFelis@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Wouldn’t they still be disappointed that you are an engineer and not a doctor?

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  • SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    what are engineers, if not machine doctors?

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  • DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    💀

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• NauticalNoodle@lemmy.ml ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Does your Taiwanese background play into that kind of thinking?

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  • DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I’m from mainland China (currently residing in the US), profile pic is because I hate the 5-Star Red Flag and the politics it represents.

    Probably something with Asian cultures’s obsession with the idea of “success”. Like… my parents literally wouldn’t care if I became some corrupt government official as long as I don’t get caught. Success is worshipped, failure is shamed. I talk shit about trump, and like my mom said “at least he became president, can you do that?”

    I’m like: “naturalized citizens can’t be president”

    omg immediately less than 1 second later, mom goes: “but Gary Locke became Governor” (Gary Locke is a Chinese American)

    And like you know Mamdani won, immedialy after, she told me “an immigrant managed to become Mayor, you are an immigrant just like him, why can’t you do the same?” bruh… maybe I could if I didn’t get so much emotional damage, mom.

    Like they worship success, regardless of if they are “good” or “bad” people.

    If you try to be a good person and you “fail” in life, you are considered worse than the bad person in power making a lot of money.

    I’m like just so close to killing myself, even though I really wanna live, this is too painful, depression is too painful.

    My parents are slowly killing my ethics and empathy, like one day I might just not care.

    Either you die young with your morals intact, or you seek success and survival, and you corrupt your soul…

    This world is cruel. The world wants you to be cruel to be able to even live a comfortable life.

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    • trolololol@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Mate I hope you get hold of your depression and find a way to sort or ignore your problems in a healthy, guilt free way.

      Look I’m from South America and I get what you’re saying. Many parallels although to a lesser degree. Probably because South America has had tough life but not as tough as South East Asia.

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    • NauticalNoodle@lemmy.ml ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I’m not asian but that bsounds like a lot of what i’ve heard called Asian Guilt. I’ve heard American Asians get a lot of flak for not measuring up to the likes of Jonny Kim. --personally, i’m finding it easier to deal with familial disappointment while living an ethical life as oppose to living an unethical life while still dealing with familial disappointment because i’m not gonna measure up to someone elses standards. Anyways, be good to yourself, there’s no guarantee anyone else will.

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  • DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Also if you have any disabilities, like if you have depression. Oh your parents are gonna be so cruel to you. You are a “useless eater”.

    What the fuck is this life. Why?

    I wasn’t even supposed to be born. Why the fuck am I here. This fucking suffering.

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    • Avorn@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Is there any chance to move out from your parents, and surround yourself with people with different ideals?

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      • DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        No chance. My brain is fucked.

        I literally felt so much anxiety when I tried to live on campus so I ended up withdrawing from college altogether.

        I’m just feeling so ashamed of myself for being such a failure I kinda think about killing myself all the time. Depression is so hard, I don’t have the energy to do anything.

        It was already bad enough before, now I feel so anxious going outside because of ICE.

        I have trouble dealing with other people. I don’t think I can handle roomates… I mean I did had roommates in college, and I kinda… everyone hated me. Well they didn’t say it, but I feel like I was unwelcomed.

        I have a lot of health issues. I snore when I sleep and it annoys everyone.

        Rent is so expensive these days you can’t be by yourself, but roomates is also a… no no.

        I’d probably just get stabbed to death since I have no social skills (well not like zero, but I never really made friends in school, so… there… I doubt I’d get along with randos as roomates in like the adult world no-less)

        I mean, I even have trouble finding psychaitric help and feel anxious af trying to schedule an appointment.

        I need my parents’ money to even afford health related stuff. Y’all know how it is in the US. They say “seek professional help” but nobody ever mentions the money aspect.

        This is years of emotional abuse and neglect.

        They destroyed my ability to be independent.

        I mean even my older brother 5 years older than me probably has problems being independent. He’s still at home with us.

        I know I sound pathetic af

        Our family is just a bunch of failures

        Shitty parenting destroyed us

        Thanks a lot, Confucious and your “filial piety” tiger parenting bullshit.

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