Benjamin Müller
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What you're neighbor did sounds similar to something my aunt did to my sister. My aunt was/is. . .odd. I'll leave it as that. It was raining that day and my aunt told my sister that it was acid-rain and it would melt her skin off and not to go outside. When my mom came to pick my sister and I, my sister was afraid to go out in the rain. My aunt didn't correct herself at all, but used the lie to terrify my child and make it difficult for our mother to get us dressed and out the door.
That was just evil and thoroughly uncalled for. Her motive was to plant a phobia and also make us well-behaved kids, suddenly difficult for our mother so that my aunt could later say how imperfect we were. Like I said, she's. . .odd. She and my mother had an abusive upbringing and her brain seems to be twisted. Thankfully my mother 'reversed the curse'.
Telling lies that would do psychological damage -- implant phobias -- is thoroughly evil. There's no justification for that.
I remember a story of parents whose daughter had watched the Wizard of Oz and she was terrified of the Wicked Witch. No matter how many times they told her the witch wasn't real, she in her childish mind just could not let go of the idea that she was. So the parents, finally realizing their words wouldn't be able to comfort her, got her a bucket of water. If the witch were to come, not that she would, but no use trying to explain that anymore, if the witch comes, they instructed her to throw water on the witch and she'll melt and die. And instantaneously their child finally calmed down and was able to go to sleep.
They followed through with a lie -- with the fairy-tale. But they used the lie to curb a phobia rather than provoke it.
What you're neighbor did sounds similar to something my aunt did to my sister. My aunt was/is. . .odd. I'll leave it as that. It was raining that day and my aunt told my sister that it was acid-rain and it would melt her skin off and not to go outside. When my mom came to pick my sister and I, my sister was afraid to go out in the rain. My aunt didn't correct herself at all, but used the lie to terrify my child and make it difficult for our mother to get us dressed and out the door.
That was just evil and thoroughly uncalled for. Her motive was to plant a phobia and also make us well-behaved kids, suddenly difficult for our mother so that my aunt could later say how imperfect we were. Like I said, she's. . .odd. She and my mother had an abusive upbringing and her brain seems to be twisted. Thankfully my mother 'reversed the curse'.
Telling lies that would do psychological damage -- implant phobias -- is thoroughly evil. There's no justification for that.
I remember a story of parents whose daughter had watched the Wizard of Oz and she was terrified of the Wicked Witch. No matter how many times they told her the witch wasn't real, she in her childish mind just could not let go of the idea that she was. So the parents, finally realizing their words wouldn't be able to comfort her, got her a bucket of water. If the witch were to come, not that she would, but no use trying to explain that anymore, if the witch comes, they instructed her to throw water on the witch and she'll melt and die. And instantaneously their child finally calmed down and was able to go to sleep.
They followed through with a lie -- with the fairy-tale. But they used the lie to curb a phobia rather than provoke it.
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