What's The Most Foolish Thing Your Parents Did While Raising You?

[@amytgt903]

My parents put me on a no-processed-foods diet when I was 9. My dad dragged my little butt to Chick-Fil-A and I had to sit there and watch him buy waffle fries for all my siblings and cousins except me. He even had the nerve to buy fries for our friends who we were going to see later (meaning they weren't even in the restaurant at the time). That was 11 years ago and I'm still mad.

[@jaredkennedy6576]

I grew up neurodivergent in the 80s. Got called lazy, stupid, worthless, etc. Not a great time. Most likely my mother, my primary antagonist, also has a certain level of ADHD. Some of my biggest revelations in finding out I am playing on hard mode here came from dealing with it with my kids. They're three for three on having ADHD and autism spectrum issues. Those are definitely not helped by their mother's contributions, but there is definitely a genetic component to it.

[@szzk7937]

You should tell your parents

[@jaredkennedy6576]

@@szzk7937 Lol

[@kariann430]

the door thing hits home to me, for years i did not have a door because my dad felt i would hide things or slam it, the bad thing was he would walk in with out saying anything so i hand no privicy at all

[@crybabydemonboy]

I’d like to throw my own hat in. All of these are about different people I’ve been in the care of. For context, My mother has custody over me and my younger sibling but she’s in the military. That means that I’ve had to stay with different family members for stretches of time because of deployments. But, for now I’ll just give 3 different ones. One for a different guardian each. 1. I was with my grandmother at the age of 12. During this time, I was on ADHD medication. She decided that I functioned well enough without them (I didn’t take them on weekends.) and SNATCHED ME OFF MY MEDS. FULL ON COLD TURKEY, NO MEDICAL OR PROFESSIONAL REFERRAL TO DO SO. I now don’t remember a majority of that year of my life. Thanks grandma (: 2. My father had custody over me and my sibling during Covid. He decided that I need to learn how to care for myself (and my brother more or less) because I had my own money from the allowance my mother would send, so he made me do the grocery shopping, the cooking, schoolwork, etc. Covid already made socializing harder and I am an anxious mess without any meds. HE DECIDES TO FORCE ME TO GO OUT AND ORDER FOOD AND IF I DIDN’T DO WELL, HE’D MAKE ME DO IT AGAIN. IT GOT TO THE POINT I CRIED WHILE ORDERING A SANDWICH AT SUBWAY. I now don’t go outside much and try not to talk to anyone I don’t know. Thanks for that. (: 3. My grandfather had custody over me and my sibling about a year ago. He’s country, like full on spit on a cut country. He basically made me parent my sibling AGAIN. He’s parked in handicap parking spaces, tried to re-teach my sibling how to ride a bike by making him go down a hill without explaining how to do ANYTHING. REARRANGED THE ENTIRE HOUSE, WHICH MADE IT HARD TO FIND ANYTHING. AND WOULD BE AT THE CASINOS AT ANY POINT OF THE DAY, SO I WOULD HAVE TO SCHEDULE A GROCERY TRIP. I now have been called ‘mom’ by my sibling, my own mother jokes about my sibling being my kid with how much protective I am over him. I don’t want to have kids now, but at least I’ll know what I’m doing. (:

[@bou2396able]

P 😮y l😅

[@crybabydemonboy]

@@stumblestutter I cried because he forced me to talk to the workers, but my social anxiety was making me borderline agoraphobic. I had to work on communicating with others and Covid had destroyed all my progress and then some.

[@mistir]

Not an excuse, and not cancer, but after coming home from the hospital and having a little bit of therapy, my mother let me cancel my medicine (bad choice) and refused to talk about any of it because "you're better now." Anything that reminded her of my mental health issues, she shut them down, same phrase. My guess is that the first poster's family wanted to forget the cancer ever happened and thus the lack of follow-up care because "it's all gone now" - this is not an excuse. If an adult wants to play the "nothing's wrong" card on themselves, go ahead. But when you have kids, don't fucking medically ignore your kids! Thank you for listening to my Ted talk.

[@VenatariHendarian]

That’s an interesting Ted Talk, pleasure having you here.

[@SomeRandomKydd]

Not me, but a friend. Got locked in their room for nearly a month when they came out as masculine presenting. I think they would have been kicked out, but were only in middle school. My sister and I (mostly my sister) was only allowed over since we were Catholics while that family was Mormon so we could visit on the pretense of learning about Mormonism. We never discussed Mormonism. They were a military family so they moved a few years later, but my sister still keeps in touch with her friend.

[@Seaguardian80]

Damn. I thought I had bad parents. 😮 And by 'bad', I mean: inept, emotionally immature, a-pack-of-animals-would've-done-a-better-job. But this video makes them seem, dare I say, half decent. 😜

[@tylerhudson8109]

1st story about the kid on high dose methotrexate is no joke, I had some serious problems with Spanish. It destroys your language learning center in your brain. We literally cannot comprehend language and all logic goes out the window for us during that phase.

[@shinatingaming]

I was on methotrexate since I was seven until 2021. I was 23 when I was taken off of it. Now I have seizures, and sometimes, when I'm talking, it sounds like I'm having a stroke.

[@TekkenGirl4Lyfe]

Settling down in the middle of nowhere out in the sticks. They seem to never once have thought I'd end up _bored out of my skull_ and wanting to move to the city.

[@Cybonator]

Mostly Facts guy, it's your commentary that keeps me coming back!

[@SuperAntiPaladin]

These stories.... they did not match the title of the video AT ALL. Nothing these parents did could be considered "foolish." It was all downright abusive!

[@mizu_the_floatzel]

Just an warning this may include child abuse from a private school Just be warned. When I was a kid I was a little bit of a troubled child for the school district and well the school district didn't know what to do with me so they suggested my parents send me to schools for kids with special needs. So the school was based out of an old church which was converted into a school and well first I was okay then the abuse started. The first, thing to happen was me being held back from school wide trips specially around December when it was my birthday. The school would take a group trip to Rockefeller center in New York City. Oddly enough, I'm Jewish and they have the audacity to leave me behind with two teachers which was unfair because my parents signed the permission slip and stated that I had " meltdown" the day before which disqualified me from going to the Rockefellers Christmas show this kept happening every year and I mean every year I never had a chance to go see the show because they played the I had a meltdown or was misbehaving card. The second thing was The teacher punishing me when we went on day trips to the aquarium or small things. One example was when we were done at the aquarium we stopped for ice cream on the way back to school and I was the most well-behaved student the whole time. So my teacher said you're going first to get ice cream. I was so excited and did the most kid thing ever and stuck my tongue out instead of a teacher being a person and said op say you're sorry or no ice cream. Instead, they grabbed me and tossed me in their car. Of course with the windows open but it was not fair again this happened constantly . The final nail in the coffin was close to when my teacher sent me to ISS (in school suspension ) and I was having a horrible day that day. Don't remember what and well was hiding in a corner in that room because there was no furniture. Next thing I know a teacher grabs me by the arm throws me to the ground puts me on a mat and then puts my arms and legs behind my back and presses down like he was trying to restrain me. I was not even being violent. I was just having a bad day. At least that moment was good because my caseworker from the district was looking for me and saw me and rushed into the room to hug me and curse out the teachers and immediately called my parents about the entire situation And what did my parents do during this whole situation? Well they didn't do much that didn't even ask the school district to investigate with all the claims. I told my parents reason the school lied and I feel having a child on the spectrum in a school that said that they were for kids with disabilities and the staff mistreated me except the counselors and the nurses . I just feel looking back at this as an adult. The school system failed and let a private school get away with this level of abuse and profiling. Sure. The school is still round today but I was hearing the school did go through a lot of restructuring after 2012. The school had a reform done and according to some sources they're now more catered to kids with actual special needs instead of other problems Sorry for the long post. I felt this could be helpful to some of you

[@angycat4262]

I was at a beach for the first time, I don't even remember for sure if I had swimming lessons at that point or not because I really don't remember how old I was, regardless my mom decided it would me a great idea to sneak up on me, grab me and throw me in the ocean and watch. I didn't drown and I wasn't in that deep so I managed to find my way to a more shallow part and find my footing, and yeah I guess I wasn't in danger because she was right there but WHY would you throw your child into the ocean and start laughing while they trash around trying not to drown

[@PlatinumRoseLady]

This thread is bringing my Inner Kaiju to the surface.

[@recoveryguru]

Story 1, Emotional Damage!!!

[@Irisarc1]

Another rerun

[@bowbow8197]

Y’know I was on methotrexate too when I had to have chemo when I was around 12. Before my cancer diagnosis my grades were extremely good but when I finished chemo and throughout high school I was barely scraping by and eventually I ended up dropping out of college I never considered that that could’ve been a result of the chemotherapy drugs I was on at the time

[@Kafj302]

I am like number 75

[@simplycrunch3180]

First?