One day I am going to find out the same thing about mine. He almost died a few years ago, so I contacted him on facebook, to see if it was something genetic I s

One day I am going to find out the same thing about mine. He almost died a few years ago, so I contacted him on facebook, to see if it was something genetic I should be worried about. It was necrotizing fasciitis, so no worries. A dead parent is a loss that happens once, but a parent that rejects you happens constantly, every single moment of your shared lifetime. The consistency of the selfishness is what gets you. No matter how often you forget about it, one day it is there again. This birthday was ignored too. I grew up envying the ones whose parents had died. More recently, I've met people with abusive parents. So, we sit around middle ground. Not exactly HN stuff, but it was nice to read your comment from the perspective of a fellow tech in a similar situation.