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[–] 45 points 1 day ago (5 children)

"If someone says, ‘When you criticize my weight, I left dinner feeling really, really upset,’ that's a fact. That's the person's interpretation," he said.

I don't feel like thats an interpretation. Why call it a fact and interpretation, did you fail high-school writer?

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  • [–] 22 points 19 hours ago

    I took it to mean that feelings are facts - meaning the parent should take it as a true statement about their child’s feelings and not try to argue with them about why their feelings are wrong.

    Not well phrased at all.

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  • [–] 14 points 18 hours ago

    It seems poorly worded. I think they were trying to say that the person's interpretation of what happened is a fact. Basically that someone can't handwave away how a person says they feel as if it's not true; how a person says they genuinely felt about something is true to them. I assume it is supposed to be targeted towards estranged parents who constantly dismissed their child's emotions and literally cannot understand how that is a bad thing to do.

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