How are you different from your parents?

[ohiosmith]

[Left Is Write]

1. I am 27 years younger.

[ohiosmith]

2. :

:rofl:

[ThomCat]

3. I'm not evil like one,

nor am I distant and cold like the other.

[Midlodemocrat]

4. I'm not as good of a person as either of them.

But I'm working on it.

[zanne]

36. Same here.

They're a tough act to follow.

[RetroLounge]

5. Younger, thinner, poorer

less settled...

RL

[azmouse]

6. More adventurous and much richer

[Ariana Celeste]

7. I am a lot like my mom

I look just like her, except for my teeth, cheekbones, and jaw.... :P I have the same kind of attitude, we have a similar sense of humor (mine is a bit more crude). Difference I guess would be that I still party, and she quit partying around the point she got pregnant with me. :shrug:

I don't know much about my dad, but I have a LOT of differences when it comes to the dad-who-raised-me.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

8. Both of my parents were crazy assholes, but in very different ways.

Fortunately, I take after my father, who was the good sort of crazy asshole.

[MissMillie]

9. I'm younger and unmarried

oh, and I only had one kid. They had 6.

[skygazer]

10. I'm not dead like my mother

And I'm not a selfish, judgmental asshole like my father.

[Mutley]

11. I am completely different from my mother

and freakily, scarily like my father.




It's Adverb Day + Make Up Your Own Word Day in case you couldn't tell. :P

[La Lioness Priyanka]

12. i am nothing like my parents. i have some traits but the combination is different.

thank the gods.

[crim son]

13. I'm poorer.

I'm not religious. Otherwise, I resemble them both different though they are.

[BarenakedLady]

14. My mother and I are very similiar

Both animal loving, vegetarian, liberals. I also inherited the depression/anxiety gene from her (THANKS MOM! lol) However, she cares more about appearances (not physical), just how others perceive you. Now, of course, I do care if people like me (especially people who mean something to me). But I don't fret over making a good impression everywhere I go. She is also way more outgoing than I am. Oh and she is religious.

My dad and I are alike in our politics, religious apathy, and alcholism (THANKS DAD! lol). We differ in that he has a short temper, talks a lot about things no one is particularly interested in, and would live on his sailboat if he could.

I can't wait to see them for Christmas though! I miss them very much.

[tigereye]

15. I have less money!

:rofl:

[Kutjara]

16. I'm alive.

And not quite such a psychotic.

[Deja Q]

17. I am

* inclined to spend more
* still single
* more interested in things than people

[Blue-Jay]

18. I see myself in both of my parents.

That simultaneously comforts and scares me. They're both Democrats, but apparently I'm the "liberal".

I'm OK with that. :)

[Nikia]

19. I'm not an incredible person like they are

I feel like such a loser when I think of how my parents were when they were my age and now.
I haven't accomplished anything and I really don't do much.

[WindRavenX]

20. I do not abuse alcohol or other substances

I am calm.

[Roon]

21. Both of my parents and step-parents are right wingers

eom

[dysfunctional press]

22. i'm not a shitty parent.

i'm not a parent at all, actually- my childhood kind of soured me on the idea.

[GoneOffShore]

23. Alive for starters

And 35 years younger.

My dad thought FDR was Satan's asshole, and I'm a yellow dog Dem. My mother was a Southern Baptist teetotaler and I'm an atheist wine drinker (wino).

[VOX]

24. I'm not deceased, I'm a Democrat, I'm in better shape than they were...

at my age, I've got a far better marriage than they did, I've got a more evolved sense of humor, I'm more introspective (both good and bad), I chafe against authority, I don't smoke, I don't drink (but oh, do I have fun!), I appreciate small things every day, etc.

Doesn't mean I don't miss 'em though -- every day. O8)

[flvegan]

25. I could only wish to be half the person/woman my mother is.

My father was a good man. He's deceased, but he was a good dad. My mom makes me look like the biggest shit anyone could ever take. Now, if you asked her, she'd say that she tries to be like me (health-wise, largely). However, my bench press doesn't begin to compare to the strength that this woman has. Heart, mind and soul, all I am I owe to her, and I'll never be as good as she is, was or will be.

[trof]

26. Still alive and still married.

;-)

[ZombieNixon]

27. I'm an American citizen.

I eat meat. I don't speak Hindi (yet...:D)

[Madrone]

28. Almost completely.

Mom - She was an awful, abusive parent that always seemed to be competing with me in some way. She's very judgemental, loves Bush, and has a great deal of difficulty relating to anyone that doesn't reside within her little bubble.

Dad - He's a good, solid democrat but more "old school" and concervative in his thinking. He's not very communicative or open, and he LOVES to argue.

I hate to argue, am not competitive, am very liberal and seem to have a knack for connecting well with people from all walks of life.

[u4ic]

29. I'm quite different from the both of them

My mother used to bottle all her anger in (my temper has mellowed a lot over the years). She never took any time for herself, didn't identify her as anything except a mother and wife. She took way too much crap from my father. She was also very religious.

My father was/is an abusive, controlling, misogynist asshole. He lives in a small box where he control and know everything - he is intimidated learning anything new, and would rather not risk looking like he didn't know what he was doing. Big fish in a very, very small pond.

[pitohui]

30. i am incapable of tact EOM

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[fudge stripe cookays]

31. Hmmmm...ya think? n/t

[Callalily]

32. I vowed that

I would never be anything like my parents, and I have succeeded.

[murielm99]

33. Same here.

If I started listing the differences, it would take all day.

I worked and being unlike them. I still do.

[1gobluedem]

34. I hate petty bickering

And they seem to thrive on it.

[NMDemDist2]

35. i'm not certifiably insane

not saying i'm not crazy mind you, but not certifiable

AND I'm smarter and better looking too :evilgrin:

[Tyler Durden]

37. Younger. And not dead (DAD) or senile (MOM).

[NewWaveChick1981]

38. Several things...

1) I'm childless by choice (which means if my parents had done this, I wouldn't be here...:P).

2) My choice of professions is different, and I will probably begin working on a doctoral degree within the next couple of years. My mother holds two Master's degrees in difficult subject, but she decided not to pursue a terminal degree because she had small children. My dad has a bachelor's degree.

3) My father is a recovering alcoholic, and I have thankfully escaped the alcoholism gene.

4) Although I look very much like my mother, my personality is completely different. Mom is a Type A personality, but I'm very laid back and definitely not Type A.

[Raffi Ella]

39. I've characteristics from both but I react to the world differently...

My Dad isn't a real deep thinker.He lives pretty much for today and doesn't contemplate life very much.He's not dumb but he is not at all interested in the philosophical aspects of this bussiness of living.

My mother is the opposite of him;Drama Queen Extraordinaire!


I'm somewhere in the middle of those two personalities.

[LaraMN]

40. I'm alot shorter than my Dad and alot taller than my Mom!

My Dad's 6'4" and my mom's 5'0.

I'm also not as laid-back as my Dad or as high-strung as my Mom.

I guess I'm just a middle-of-the-road hybrid.

They're both very liberal and intelligent, but I'm alot goofier than either of them (or my sister). I'm the family weirdo.

[bikebloke]

41. They were petty.

To both of them, children were something they could look down upon and feel superior. Only children grow up, which then became a threat to them.

I stopped living with the incubator at 15. She was a screamer. I used to get yelled at for using what she considered "big words". And never once since did she ever try to make contact with me. No money in it. Also, narcisstic, spending all her time in front of the mirror doing her hair. Time handed out a little justice. After spending all her adult life in a cloud of hair spray marked "inflamable" on the can, she caught skin cancer and died. I refused to make an appearance for a made-for-TV deathbed reunion.

My father was the lesser of two evils. Though he didn't want me going beyond high school, and ranted against college education until smoking caught up with him.

Luckily, I had a cool grandmother whose influence probably detoxified my parents. Though I have a sibling that turned out a sociopath.

Physically, I've been told that I resembled my father. Just a lot taller.

[seemunkee]

42. I'm still alive

At 49 I have already out lived my dad by 4 years. I don't have diabetes, am not blind, and don't drink anywhere near the amount of beer that he did. I also do not have his math skills or his temper.

I have more education than my mom, but not as much common sense and practical knowledge.

[NNadir]

43. My father was a conservative Republican. My mother was a moderate Dem.

My mother could and did vote for Republicans sometimes, something I never did and never will do.

My parents were Christians and I am an atheist.

My parents are dead and I am still alive.

My parents were good looking when they were young - but I am extremely ugly.

What they tried to teach me about politics didn't stick, but what they taught me about being parents did stick. As a father, I am trying to live up to my father.

[montanto]

44. I'm not a fucking republican . . .

I don't have a picture of GHW Bush and Mrs. holding baby Bush on my refrigerator.

I don't live in a trailer in a crappy racist little town.

I have a college education.

I use my education to make a living.

I don't profess to know about things that I know nothing about.

I think.

And much, much, more

[T_i_B]

45. My parents politics are to the right of Ghengis Khan

My politics are not.

Still love my family though, and I find the amount of bile some people on this thread have for their parents just a little bit worrying. Is DU populated mainly by mardy teenagers these days or something? :shrug:

[soleft]

46. My parents love Bill O'Reilly

Need I say more?