Some of us learn as small babies that there’s no point in crying because we won’t be answered, so we go quiet.
@hmm_cook not just won’t be answered. Will be yelled at or spanked or worse
@hmm_cook and the thing is, it doesn’t stop at baby age. I learned pretty early that if I have a problem - the thing I have to do first is to hide it. Because if I trip while walking(which with my dispraxia was many times every day) , the parents would scold(and maybe punish) me for ‘not looking where you go’. If I get hurt - for ‘you obviously violated some rule or was using a tool incorrectly’, if I get sick - for not washing my hands well enough, not wearing enough clothes, sitting in a windy place, eating something cold, getting close(in a class with assigned desk seats) to a kid that also got sick etc. And if they even try to do with the problem (like a wound, a burn, a sickness, a cold etc) - it will be something that hurts, or tastes awfully, or restricts me in many ways - but that doesn’t take the pain away. And if I dare to complaint about the pain - I’d most probably be told to suck it in and don’t exaggerate because it’s just a small thing.
@hmm_cook my mother always said i was a quiet baby -- never made the connection before
@hmm_cook pushed by 'sleep-training' and 'self-soothing' advocates despite every fiber in a parents body screaming at them to pick up the baby.