Is it possible to become a sterotype? I mean some people were born like that for example: all rich people are snobs... I was thinking that if you tell someone what they are or you judge them they become the thing that you said they are. For instance my mom is always calling me and my sister and my baby brother smart (not that I'm complaining) but when it comes to my other brother and he brings home his report card or something it's all F's D's and C's. At first I was mad about it because she told me that in no way in hell was I to EVER bring those grades home so I didn't. So my brother, who has ADHD, I guess decided to prove her wrong and show her he wasn't an idiot he brought home A's and B's.
Do you know what the first thing she asked him was? She asked him if he had bribed his teacher. Now I was like damn you didn't even say congratulations or good job or something equally encouraging. The next report card he got his old grades again.
So that's what I was thinking about was it possible with all the discouragement she was showing around him was he becoming the stereotype that just because he has an illness he's dumb. Or does he just want some kind of approval?
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