Young people treat the very people who gave them life and sustained them through their growing years as though now they must be patronized. They make you feel like you can't do anything for yourself or anyone else and that your thinking is suddenly salad. Why can't they believe we are still the same people we were before only in older bodies?
2007-08-04 07:35:04 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Senior Citizens
Personally I don't feel that way at all. This q is making me very sad too. Why are you all pulling your kids to pieces? it must be the way you brought them up.
My only child never treated me with disrespect, but he died nearly 5 years ago, and if I was still blessed enough to have him here right now, I would certainly not be complaining about him.
If you feel this way, talk to your kids don't condemn them, you choose to have them! and you are extremely lucky they are still with you! x
2007-08-04 08:53:15 · answer #1 · answered by ? 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I live with seniors and we aren't the same people we once were. Short term memory loss is a good example.. Some refuse help on simple thing wanting to do for themselves but end up falling. At some point shouldn't we let others help us! They care about us and aren't being disrespectful. I am sorry you feel the way you do about this issue. One thing I found out in a hurry you never tell another senior how to do anything.
2007-08-08 06:27:34 · answer #2 · answered by plyjanney 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To paraphrase Steppenwolf's song "The Pusher ; "You know I see a lot of people walkin' 'round---with tombstones in their eyes." In this case it's what I see in the youngsters eyes when they look at me. "He might as well be dead. What use is he. Just a waste of oxygen. Don't speak to the senile, they're brain dead already. They don't live in my world. They don't really know what it's like in the "real" world,etc." I call them "Tube heads." All they are and all they know came from television. I was at Wal-Mart once and some 18 year old asked me for ID to buy a sixer of beer. I said "Hey, do you need glasses? I know I don't look a day over 25" just as a joke. he got all wierd and talked ver---ry slowly to me, explaining "Sir, it's company policy. Anyone who buys alcholic products has to show identification." Absolutely humorless.Since I had my ballpoint pen in hand, all ready to sign the credit card slip I punctured a hole in one of the cans and said "No, I change my mind,----this one is leaking." I left the groceries, beer and all and walked out. He's yelling at me all the way out "Sir, you can't do that, etc."
2007-08-04 08:23:59 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Joan, I have no clue why we are treated this way! I can tell you that I resent this treatment too!
I am degreed and many of them are not! So, I ask them what their degree is in? That usually gets them off my back pretty well! lol I also ask them if they want to compare IQ's? LOL They don't even try with that one.
So, stand up and smile and give them the facts....they are sometimes more stupid...in a young body!
2007-08-04 07:41:44 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Oh yeah, big time! Still too much fire in this old man to go for the basket thing. They treat me like a basket case and they usually get a taste of the fire.
2007-08-04 09:53:19 · answer #5 · answered by Ray T 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The realization that elderly young people are trapped in old bodies will take place only when they become seniors. I've just realized this myself and I'm 60 yrs old.
2007-08-05 09:33:59 · answer #6 · answered by Ju ju 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't get patronized - I get no respect! My kids act as if they should have everything I've worked 30 years to earn. And then they get mad at me when I don't give them what they want. I spent my time & energy providing for them, & get absolutely nothing from them now that they are adults. Whatever happened to the time when children respected their parents?
2007-08-04 07:49:17 · answer #7 · answered by needtoknow 4 · 5⤊ 0⤋
If only! My kids think I'm a trip and I'm young at heart. That's OK with me, my problem is that they can't manage their own affairs all that great, and she who should be kicking back her heels and having fun on cruises is helping them stay on their feet.
2007-08-06 08:04:56 · answer #8 · answered by felines 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Thats nuts. They are trying to show respect. I have a physical problem, I never dwell on it, my kids know, they don't fawn over me. It's called helping someone. I know my limitations. Why do some of you have to b*tch and complain about anything and everything?
2007-08-04 08:52:17 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes,cackle,cackle,we're just little girls with grandma's faces. But that helps us get away in food fights in the Home.They figure we are too out of it to know what we're doing, but we're not! Besides,throwing stewed prunes and jello at each other helps pass the time.And it sure as hell beats Bingo. Yes, I qualify.And that's fine with me.
2007-08-04 08:33:05 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋