Question for unemployed people. Did you have an angry parent?

My parents were just awful.  I was shunned by the neighbors and community at large, not just because of my behaviour but because of my parents' behaviour.

The other big problem was that my parents were refugees who never learnt English, they relied on family and neighbors to translate almost everything for them.  This lead to increasingly ridiculous situations with them trying to cover up this fact and blaming everyone, including me for their failures.

My mother was very patronising, telling me and my sister, constantly, not to be silly. For example, most families tell their grown up children to ' go and find a job, don't sit at home all day'  I was repeatedly told ' not to be silly, and to stay at home 24/7 because I can't possibly work because I don't speak English.'

My father's catchphrase was to prefix conversations with calling everyone 'a stupid idiot', he couldn't understand the dialogue on TV so he shouted at the TV, 'the stupid idiots don't know what they're talking about.'  And at me, ' look at that stupid idiot, he's pretending to watch the TV!'

My parents were just awful.  I was shunned by the neighbors and community at large, not just because of my behaviour but because of my parents' behaviour.

The other big problem was that my parents were refugees who never learnt English, they relied on family and neighbors to translate almost everything for them.  This lead to increasingly ridiculous situations with them trying to cover up this fact and blaming everyone, including me for their failures.

My mother was very patronising, telling me and my sister, constantly, not to be silly. For example, most families tell their grown up children to ' go and find a job, don't sit at home all day'  I was repeatedly told ' not to be silly, and to stay at home 24/7 because I can't possibly work because I don't speak English.'

My father's catchphrase was to prefix conversations with calling everyone 'a stupid idiot', he couldn't understand the dialogue on TV so he shouted at the TV, 'the stupid idiots don't know what they're talking about.'  And at me, ' look at that stupid idiot, he's pretending to watch the TV!'

I can see how that would have had a detrimental effect on your confidence about yourself and others. Can't have been easy.