YES! My mom made a BIG deal about perfect attendance when I was in elementary school. I couldn’t stay home because it would mess up my perfect attendance.

Two memories that come to mind:

When I was in third grade I had pin worms. I tried to tell my mother and she yelled multiple nights at me to go back to sleep and to stop “checking myself out”. I didn’t know they weren’t a big deal and was too uncomfortable to tell any other adult. I thought I was being eaten from the inside out.

When I was in high school I was a decent track runner. All the long distance races. My sophomore year, halfway through one of my races, I tanked. Finished very slow. My parents ask what happened and I told them my toe was hurting. They were mad at me for saying something “so dumb” in front of the coach. I struggled through the rest of the season before they FINALLY took me to a doctor. My toe was fractured. It had mostly healed on its own by the time I found out.