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Just ordinary parents who think that what they are doing is "right" and continue to insist on their rightness, because they cannot modulate what is real to their "grown-upness" by accessing another part of themselves that knows what it is like.
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My grown-upness was not such a shock.
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Either of our own choosing or sometimes it is forced upon us, we lose our childish innocence and take on false “grown-upness.”
Source: wiktionary
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