What makes it worse is the language barrier… cuz I’ve been using English since 8 and its my primary lanfuage, and my mom sounds awkward af in English and she won’t understand complex topics…

And like if I start talking philosophy, then it sounds so doomer and like mom be like: (translated) “Why are you overthinking everything?”

But okay wtf do I talk about? Do I start going on a rant about politics and them mom be like: “You can’t change politics, just accept it”

Like WHAT DO YOU WANT?

I talk to dad about like hypothetical interstellar travel and time dialation and dad was like: “Cool story bro” (like the Cantonese equivalent of it)

Like what the hell, are they just so boring? And they are saying I’m gonna become “autistic” because I never talk to them…

There’s nothing to talk about that ends the conversation happily.

Literally more boring responses than a fucking LLM lmfao

  • okwhateverdude@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 days ago

    For what it is worth, I struggle with this too. It is important to remember the humans on the other side of the conversation and step into their shoes. I don’t know what it is like to be a parent since I am not one, but I can sympathize with unfulfillingness of having a weird kid. Their purpose in life was to raise you for quite some number of years. Society has shaped their expectations on what a kid should be like. I don’t really have anything in common with my parents or talk to them often and it frustrates them, too. If you don’t want to talk to them, tell them that. That’s better than ghosting them at least, which I am guilty of.