Context: A young adult tells his mother that he’s depressed and that life is meaningless and that he wants to die (suicide is not directly mentioned but implied). Then the mother proceeds to express “regretting giving birth to you” directly to that young adult.

(That young adult is me)

    • FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      Not normal, just uhhh… maybe common.

      I was trying to think of a way to put it, but that’s a good sentence in this context for sure.

      Also, yes, blood relation does not mean you have to put up with some asshole’s cruelty. Cut them out if you can.

    • throwawayacc0430@sh.itjust.worksOP
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      3 months ago

      I was just consuming some media and that line of “regretting giving birth” came up and I was just like: I hope that’s not that common.

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      3 months ago

      Not normal, just uhhh… maybe common.

      Either you don’t know what normal is or common is if you think they’re different things…

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        3 months ago

        Cancer is not normal cell tissue, but it’s very common. They are different words, with different meanings.

      • u/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org)@lemmy.sdf.org
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        3 months ago

        Maybe. The way I understand it:

        Normal is something that’s basically the way it should be, while common just refers to being of higher frequency of occurence, regularly seen.

        For example: “Is police brutality normal?” vs “Is police brutality common?”
        No and yes.