• corsicanguppy
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    5 days ago

    Your parents were studying you before you understood object permanence, Felicia. The only person consuming this carefully crafted version of yourself is you. Your parents changed your nappies. You’re not smart enough to understand you have no secrets, but you’ll figure it out.

    I see “my parents are so dumb” is still a thing for secondary students.

    • Lka1988@sh.itjust.works
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      Parent of teenagers here, and I will be the one to tell you how very wrong you are. As they grow, at some point they start to withhold bits of info from you, innocent or not, and they eventually start branching out to do their own thing. And then they move out.

      You can either be supportive (including appropriate discipline) and be there for them when they need you, or you can watch them leave at 18 with a chance of never seeing them again.

      IDK about you, but I choose the former 100%.

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      You’re not smart enough to understand you have no secrets, but you’ll figure it out.

      honey, my mom still thinks my favorite meal is tuna mac from when I was 5

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      LoL nah. Good parents might, sure. Bad parents just think they do, while projecting themselves onto their kids. I’m pushing 50, and my parents have never understood me at all. Even when I open up and try to explain my perspective today, they take offense, declare it as rebellion against god, and simply refuse to think about what I’ve said. There is no helping them.