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Give illustrations of ways in which specific styles of foolishness were learned in your early years.
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I was very smart and got along very well with adults when I was very little, and that led to me desiring attention from them. If an adult was not praising me, I felt as though I must be doing something wrong. I learned to crave attention from adults and came to do a lot of things to get it.
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Being raised in a single-parent household, I would probably say I was a compliant child, agreeable, I did not want to cause my mother any problems. I was also the oldest of four, watched her prioritize her children over her own well-being.
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I felt like I didn’t have a voice. I was always told to stop defending myself. I felt unloved when someone won’t listen to me. Even it is was just a silly idea. The spirit revealed wisdom people not listening didn’t mean they didn’t love me. They that their own reason not to listen and I didn’t always need to share it. Ultimately God listens to every whisper in my heart.
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I am invisible unless I do something dramatic. To live is to give to others: My identity is in helping and making things stable for others. A good Christian girl doesn’t think of herself, and certainly doesn’t express wants or preference. She receives gratefully what is given. In addition, she attempts to keep others from discomfort or sin by carefully choosing her own actions and behaviors.
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Knocking on locked doors to be let in let the pattern grow where I don’t like being disregarded or ignored. As a teen that led to some really awful sin patterns, and as an adult it led to really awful people pleasing sin patterns.