Reply #44: If I "consider myself superior" it's not because you're not a parent. [View All]

[Yollam]

It's because you respond with nonsense like this:

many parents want to puff themselves up and pretend that their circumstances are so odd and unusual that no childless person can understand, but this is ridiculous on the face of it, it is another way of saying that childless persons are inferior because they cannot possibly possess the imagination or empathy to put themselves in another's shoes

and that my friends is just rude, you know?


Nobody in this whole thread has said, or even implied any of this bilge. It's obvious that you have a personal problem with the subject.


No amount of imagination is enough to prepare a person for parenthood. It is ALWAYS more than we imagined. It is a transformative experience. I don't think I'm "better than others" for having had it, but I do think I'm different, and I'm definitely a different person than I was before having kids.

What you see as "puffing up" is simply an attempt by parents to relate and share common experiences. Sorry if that bugs you.