Who /dumb parents/ here?

Maury is fucking wild; it's an immediate and intense human drama that taps the most visceral part of our social psyche. Only a pretentious loser would look down on it.

My dad's a complete and utter retard, and my mom is a fairly intelligent librarian who read to me often and got me into reading.

Dad is extremely knowledgeable about history especially WW2 and Ireland but never really reads any fiction apart from shitty historical fiction.
Mum reads Lee Child and Tom Rob Smith also stuff from the best seller list.

Could be worse.

>Dad was psychiatrist with masters in English literature and Philosophy.
>Mom was a professor of Philosophy and basically has spend her entire life collecting master degrees for the sake off it.

Grew up in a home in which every wall was either plastered in books or art.
There were always professors from other -usually foreign- universities staying at my home.
Dinners consisted of long meaty discussions drowned in red wine.

I always was a failure in their eyes for become 'just a physician'.

Mean!

Reminder that if you do not have daddy issues you will NEVER be a successful writer

My dad is a crude alcoholic. "The Catcher in the Rye is about a kid with a bunch of conspiracy theories in his head."-direct quote
My mom is a sweet lady but she has her intellectual shortcomings. She loves the Kardashians.

that's a dude.

My parents aren't retarded at the very least.

My mother isn't a broad watching Real Housewives or soap operas or similar schlock. In fact she loves surface-level nigh patrician shit like To Kill a Mockingbird and The Shining. I think that might be because of daddy issues or some shit and her relating to Scout and Danny (who did look like her when she was a kid) but I'm no Freudian analyst so bear with me. She's also into crime docs. And while she is a liberal at least she's an """informed""" liberal who """knows""" her """info""" instead of some air headed parrot.

Dad is Fox News conservative and a reformed Chad who fucked himself over for life with four illegitimate children and four cases of child support. That in and of itself speaks retardation. Some days I wish I was like him and could charm so hard I'd get laid in a convent but then I remember at least I won't stick my dick in cray cray and be forced to pay pay for life.

Mom is a 6/10 because she's the source of my self-esteem issues but at least I didn't grow up to be a druggie and dad is a 7/10 because he is a retarded and the real man at fault but at least he reformed in the end.

Definitely, but my situation is a lot like 's. I'm the only one who's been to university, of all my siblings I'm the only one who even graduated high school. One of my sisters has been in prison twice, had three kids throughout her teens and killed her dad (my step-dad) by infecting one of his insulin needles with hepatitis C. My other sister is usually in jail, has never had a job, has four half black kids none of whom she has custody over (but neither do their fathers, because the dads are also shits). My other sister is just insane, has been committed, did a lot of drugs, can't function normally at all and works the night shift cleaning a small hospital by herself.

No one in my family ever made more than $8/hr whenever they did have a job. You'd think people would be proud of me, maybe, for making three times as much as they ever have, for getting all the way to graduate school, for managing a single, faithful long-term relationship.

But it's awful prodigal son shit. They're far more proud of a cousin who recently got out of prison, found a guy with three kids who got her pregnant again (she lost custody of her previous kids, not even visitation rights), and is now a stay-at-home mom instead of a drug addict.

Apparently one of my favorite phrases as a kid was to say how I wanted to start smoking just so I could quit and get everyone to care about me.