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I agree, that a meme is not the best option, because it's a nuanced thing, but no, you got it wrong or at least you found the worst kind of interpretation for this:
As a child I was heavily beaten for a lot of things like (loud) crying, insisting on stuff or like not agreeing with my father in general. So when I'm out today and I see a child behaving like this (which is, occasionally, typical child behavior and important for their development) I subconsciously already expect something painful to happen. So this is the first negative feeling this triggers in me.
Then the other learned behavior chimes in: anger. How you react to a situation like that is often behavior you learned from your parents. So my father showed me that in this kind of situation it's not only justified but normal to get angry. So my first subconscious reaction is anger, I can't help it.
Then the consciousness and therapy kicks in. I remember it's a child and it needs to be allowed to process things, even this way, no matter if they make me uncomfortable (within boundaries obvs). No one's going to get hurt now and it's not that bad.
The image with the text made me laugh a bit because I think it pretty well depicts the emotional rollercoaster and the energy drain. I still love my niblings to bits and I'm happy, they don't have to feel the same as me now, when they are older.
Thanks for the eloquent reply. I deliberately worded it like that to possibly help people that would otherwise thoughtlessly spank a child think about it in a different light.
What are you talking about, I was spanked as a child and I turned out mostly almost ok after years of therapy.
Amen to that!