Drama of the Gifted Child, by Alice Miller

[rachelmanija]

Getting a jump on some school reading for next quarter.

I have only just started this, but... is it just me, or is she annoyingly prone to assuming that everyone experiences similar things in the same way and has the same reactions, and so insisting that anyone who says they feel differently from what she expects is denying or repressing the ONE TRUTH?

Drama of the Gifted Child

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[kore]

Yeah, Alice went batshit later, but Gifted Child really did help me realize how much my parents had invested in me being a Prodigy Dolly and that it was okay for me to disagree with their narrative that my childhood was Utterly Perfect, which meant a lot at the time -- I think I was 13 or 14.

OH, apparently she revised it in 1997? http://www.alice-miller.com/books_en.php?page=7 Oh. Oh dear. I wonder how different it is. ....LOL, I checked LibraryThing and I have three copies: two of the 1981 edition and one of the 1996.