Reddit, what did your parents teach you that you had to unlearn?

Well, my grandpa told me that soda evaporates quickly, as in half the can in 20 minutes, when I was around six.

It took me like 10 years to realize he's been drinking my soda when my back is turned.

I always drank my soda fast when outside or in hot places because of it.

Wanting anything is selfish. Learning to undo this train of thought is the greatest feat of my life.

It's still hard for me to attempt for first place in any form of competition.

I always feel that someone else is more deserving, so I don't give it my all.

If I do win, I'm always

certain it was a fluke. This applies to my relationships in the worst way, too. I have a hard time

dating because I'm convinced that if I date them, I would be taking them off the market,

and someone more deserving would be losing out. Or how I have a strong desire to be

dominant in the bedroom, but I'm constantly guilting

myself from wanting these things, so I either submit or beat around the bush.

It doesn't matter what I want.

I am undeserving and to achieve is selfish and wrong.

Screw that thought process.

My mother told me that I had another middle name one day, Aloysius.

I hated it, of course, but eventually came to terms with the idea.

It was years later that she realized I had been writing an extra middle name on literally

everything that required my full name, and asked me why I was doing such an odd thing.

She had forgotten what she had done.

When I told her, she laughed at me for

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