I'm just now starting to realize that it's not my fault that I never learned the same basic life skills that my peers did. I have an abusive mom and she purposely never taught me how to do anything myself.
I'm realizing that the shame I had about not knowing those things was making it harder and harder to actually learn them. Feeling deeply ashamed of myself whenever I tried to do something that I didn't know how to do just made me avoid doing those things so I wouldn't feel bad.
I'm going to start celebrating my accomplishments (as I learn how to cook, clean, drive, etc) instead of hiding the things I don't know how to do out of shame.














