Nate
I’m fortunate enough to have pretty chill parents but not everyone is as lucky as me. By the standards of my friends (and the people in this thread) all of the things my parents did to try and be “strict” were pretty milquetoast.
I had my driver’s license before I had a cell phone. I could go wherever I wanted as long as I couldn’t communicate with them. That was my version of coming home before the street lights came on.
In a new subreddit called, appropriately, “Insane Parents,” kids are calling out their moms and dads for less than, umm, “acceptable behavior.”
Some are kinda funny, some are kinda sad, but yea, I think all qualify as “insane” to a degree:
1. “My Mother-in-Law gave us all COVID. Tested positive and never told us.”
2. “So I moved out of my mom’s house two years ago. This just happened.”
3. “had half day at school, decided to go out with friends. asked dad for permission to go out he said yes but didn’t tell stepmom, she texted me pissed and demanding I come home now even though I had permission to go”
4. “Two years ago I went NC because she threatened to kill my dog in various cruel ways. I hope the Easter bunny stays away.”
5. “And boomers wonder why their kids don’t like them”
6. “Can you think of anything from your childhood that may have caused your eating disorder?”
7. “How dare you try to expand my son’s horizons and teach him another language!”
8. “How my mom talks to me when i get paid”
9. “How dare I get the covid vax”
10. “Was told to post this here. Mom offering her kid up for free labor. Thankfully the poster had a little more common sense!”
11. “Parents buy our daughter a mini horse when they’re borrowing our car everyday to get to work.”
12. “My 13 y/o sister lives with my mom, who is a religious nut. I mentioned buying her animal crossing so we could play together a few weeks ago. Just got this from my dad smh”
13. “My child doesn’t deserve to contact anyone but me, can’t wait until they don’t have anyone to crash couches with when I kick em out”
14. “I don’t even know where to start”
15. “This was right after I moved out, the reason I didn’t answer right away? I was taking a nap…”
16. “Happened a while ago at a friends party my mum never asked if she was ok”
17. “Assuming her daughter will ‘Thank her when she’s older’… completely insane”
18. “Idk if this counts as insane, but still an invasion of privacy (for context I hand my phone in to my mum at 8:30 and that is why she had it)”
19. “I’ve been made to believe 2 different people were my father now, but neither of them are. I asked my mom who else was a possibility. I’m 32 and would just like to know.”
20. “Insane mom thinks it’s funny to give away her daughter’s toys without even letting her know beforehand.”
21. “My mam overheard us asking my dad’s partner of 8 years for advice on a Father’s Day gift and stormed out – we then received this text. She forgets that she cheated on him and walked out on us in the first place”
22. “My mom’s response to me asking her for privacy”
23. “my ‘mother’ when I commented facts on her anti-vax posts”
24. “My (F 21) dad only contacts me when he wants something. This is what he messaged me out of the blue with while I was crying at work.”
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27. “My dad always insults my appearance in pictures so I deleted his comments. A man child.”
28. “Burn it all down!”
29. “I came home from work after a long day of dealing with idiots and went straight into the shower. I got this message while I was in the shower.”
30. “my sister got sent this by our abusive father for saying she might not be able to visit him”
h/t: r/insaneparents