Anyone else dislike their dads?

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My dad did not have a very pleasant childhood, according to relatives who have spoken to me about it. He is abusive, and I have difficulty in reconciling with him.

Here's an example of what my father is like:

http://www.wrongplanet.net/postt157295.html

Well....my father....

He can produce offspring and mate a lot, given he has ~5< different siblings by different females.....and I rarely see him.

I made up by taking him to an anime convention to make him suffer

^^^^ wow, mine too, Warsie! I have 5 half-sisters from the biological father, and he didn't raise a single one of them. He has 6 daughters by 5 women---that we know of ! I don't really care what his issues are, to be honest. He has done a lot of harm to a lot of people.

I like your philosophy, Justalouise. That's cool, and pretty mature, IMO.

I loved my dad. My mother was always bullying him for his funny ways and looking back I can see a lot of ADHD and Asperger's in him. Think I know where I got them from. Sadly, he died when I was 6 years old. Broke my heart forever.

My mother hated me because I was so much like my dad. Bullied me terribly when I was a child. I haven't seen her in many years now, but last I heard she was still a bully. Thank God I'm like my father!! !

My dad was killed in the Vietnam war, when I was a baby. My mom doesn't like to talk about him very much, other than to say that he was very musically inclined and loved all things tech - a lot like myself. So other than that tiny bit of information, I really have nothing to like or dislike him for.

^ {hugs}

Thanks.

NP.

Oh god yes. To be completely honest, I can at best tolerate him. At best.
He was never actually away when I grew up, but he wasn’t there for me either. We never bonded, I have never felt any closeness to him at all. When I was little he’d avoid playing with me, and would time it so that when he put away his newspaper and told me to get the toys, but no matter how quick I was, I’d always return from my room only to be told “no, the news are on now” or “the film starts”. Everytime. Trust me, little me noticed that very well. My beloved grandfather was more of a father to me than my father ever was. Maybe the rectum never forgave me for being born a girl, that’s all that matters to men, isn’t it?
We never bonded, I never liked him, and I never loved him.
I was also very aware of who it was who gave me gifts for birthday and Christmas growing up (and that was never him, only my mother and my grandparents; my mother tried covering it up when I was little, but she admitted it when I called the bluff).

As I got a little older, he has been somewhat emotionally abusive, very quick to put me down and point out everything he thinks is wrong with me. It ticks me off, but he lost the ability to hurt me very early. He can’t hurt me anymore, cause I his opinions matter less to me than what I leave behind in the toilet. He does make me angry though, as I do feel I should be allowed to be myself without him being an ass.

He has never been there for me, he has never had anything but criticism for me, and at times when I have been happy about something, I have been reluctant to talk about it at home when he’s there, because I get anxious waiting for sh***y comments that will come more often than not.

Just last year it occurred to me that he had turned 60 and that this stranger was my father, yet I hardly knew him (and whose fault is that, hey?). I wondered if I should try to talk to him, but I just couldn’t be bothered because I just don’t care.

The other day we had a row, and he said: “You shouldn’t bleeping have the right to life!” The next day he repeated it.
That is one comment I will never forgive. I think you should be guilty of something really bad to be told that to your face. At that moment I denounced him forever. I do no longer have a father.

I have a dad? oh yeah I kind of remember him now... yes I don't really like my father... He wasnt there for me for 95% of my life unless he remembered that he had a daughter. However I have a half sister (we dont have the same mom) and he was there for a lot more of her life then mine and she tends to rub this in. Of course I have to take into consideration that he was 19 when i was born and was sort of a trouble maker (parties, drugs, chasing guys around with baseball bats).... Lucky me I got my short temper and stubbornness from him. I guess I should thank him for my eye color though...

To me you sound like a sixteen year old. Boys rebel against their fathers at your age. It makes it easier for them to find their independent way in the world.

To my way of looking at things saying your father gave you Asperger's doesn't make sense. You see yourself in your Dad, and you want to be different.

My dad left my mum when she was pregnant. He sent me letters occantionally but stopped because I never replied, or only wrote a couple of sentences the few times I sent one back.

I did a google search on him 6 months ago, and discovered he is probably dead. I didn't really have any feelings about that.

I send my condolences to those who have had unhealthy relationships with their parents or who have lost loved ones. My dad was quite nice when I was a child, although he was a bit "weird". Looking back, he really portrayed a lot of aspie traits, but was overall a nice guy. He had a closed head injury when I was 10 and things changed from there. He used to hit and try to choke out my mom. I'd go and defend her and once I called the police (finally, after many occurences b/c my mom begged me not to call so he could keep his job), he never did it again... although my mom told the cop I was lying and made me look like an over dramatic teenager. Since then he is civil often quite nice, but so embarrassing and wacky. He lacks common sense and does things that I really don't understand. I think I've forgiven him, but I'm not sure because he has never apologized and blames me for all of it. Part of me really resents my mom for keeping the both of us in that situation for financial reasons. I try to love them both though. I hope I can remember him for who he was before, it's just a really confusing situation. Thanks for the thread, I think I needed to type this out.

Yeah, if I had a feeling towards him it would be contempt (which isn't really an emotion, I guess).

He's not autistic but has an antisocial personality type which isn't the issue actually - it's what he makes out of this and what he actively decides on doing that I think is pathetic.

On the bright side stands the fact that I had no relationship with him and little contact after my infancy except for a few fleeting "oh, you there, stranger, we're related" moments several years ago.

My dad's a Narcissist. I don't want anything to do with him right now.