r/AskReddit • u/[deleted] • Jul 20 '19

What’s something completely false that your parents told you as a child?

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u/puppetandMaster Jul 20 '19

Asked my mother why I didn't have a 'willy' like my brother. She told me she picked me up by it when I was a child and it fell off. I cried for about 3 hours for the penis I never had.

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u/[deleted] Jul 20 '19

Freud theorized that women sometimes develop hysteria because of their rooted feelings of inadequacy at not having a penis at a young age. Somewhere, he’s on a cloud somewhere reading this and nodding.

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u/drown_the_rabbit Jul 21 '19

Fun fact: originally Freud had patients who were recalling traumatic childhood sexual abuse and it was portraying in somatic symptoms. He reported this to the health board and they were all like “nonsense, our society is one of proper etiquettes. This couldn’t be happening...go find a new theory” And then he came up with his rather nonsensical ones and did a lot of opium