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Terrified of Making Mistakes
Is this normal: Every time I make a mistake, I tell my parents. For instance, I just put my retainers in boiling water after dropping them on the ground, because I wanted to disinfect them. Turns out, that ruins them! 😭 I didn’t know what to do because I won’t be home for about a month, and I don’t want my teeth to move, so I called my mom, who yelled at me and said: “How could you not have known better?” “You should have called us before.” “How do you have all this technology and still not Google or ask AI before doing this?” “Your head is not for pretty clips and bows it’s for thinking.” “Why don’t you have common sense?” “Why do you never think?” Amongst other things that I can’t remember. Each time I would try to explain that I DID think (I in fact overthink) she would say one of these things. One of my biggest fears is not having known better, and since writing this down I feel like these reactions have something to do with it, but I don’t know what to do to stop this cycle. I always feel like I need to tell my parents when I make a mistake because I don’t know what to do after, and they tell me what to do after saying all of these things. So eventually I get to a solution, just after all this. In my head I think it’s short term pain for long term gain, and I don’t trust myself enough to figure it out on my own after I make a mistake because it feels like they know better than I do.