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Why This Book Matters:
The Drama of the Gifted Child explains how the pressure to be perfect in childhood seeps into adulthood, making it harder to process emotions and overcome the darkness that once plagued them.
The Big Takeaways:
- The adolescence of some adults plagues their lives unknowingly.
- If People’s inability to connect with their emotions stems from their childhood.
- Harmful behavior to one’s self in adulthood often comes from emotions they buried as a child.
- Behaviors people often blanket with the term “free” typically hide a sad reality.
- Children who grew up with higher grades or more maturity were often labeled as “gifted” and were continually attempting to live up to perfect standards.
- This behavior follows people into adulthood as they try to navigate a world, tearing themselves down for not being perfect at everything.
- Childhood trauma does not stop at the person who witnessed it firsthand.
- Trauma is passed down from one generation to the next through the extreme measures people take to make sure their children don’t have to suffer from the same pressures of their own childhood.
- Those who process their trauma and live their lives being honest to themselves will be the leaders of change.
- Those who let themselves feel and process the emotions they once repressed will give them the freedom to live a healthy life and encourage others to do the same.
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