Telling friends and/or family?

[metalangel]

And I'm with Stein here. If my parents were like that, it'd be easy enough to detach because they're clearly not worth it. In fact, one was like that and she straightened up once I put my foot down.

http://www.alternet.org/belief/escape-c ... page=0%2C2

LOL ROFL Jennifer should have just headbutted her mom and called the cops LMAO

Someone raised in an household of fear and hostility might be so petrified of their parents and the consequences and too naive or ignorant to know they can get help. Their parents might be unimaginably cruel but the person will still see them as their mother and father and find it hard if not impossible to part ways. If you had the inner strength, good for you, but not everyone is that lucky.

[Atario]

So either answer violence with violence, or legally sever all ties with them and live until adulthood in foster care?

You make it sound so easy, so cut and dried and free of emotion.

It is.

Also an excellent way to end up homeless, in jail, or worse.

People like that, those who force their beliefs on others, are scum. Call me cynical, but seriously. Disgusting.

It's actually the opposite of cynical: idealistic. Unfortunately ideals don't always fly in the real world. Sometimes you just have to keep your head down till you can skip outta Dodge.

[Steinherz]

So either answer violence with violence, or legally sever all ties with them and live until adulthood in foster care?

You make it sound so easy, so cut and dried and free of emotion.

It is.

Also an excellent way to end up homeless, in jail, or worse.

Let's see...
Unless your parents are beyond full-retard, they can't do anything worse to you than reprimand you. If they physically hit you, call the police.
Watch them squirm.

People like that, those who force their beliefs on others, are scum. Call me cynical, but seriously. Disgusting.

It's actually the opposite of cynical: idealistic. Unfortunately ideals don't always fly in the real world. Sometimes you just have to keep your head down till you can skip outta Dodge.

And once you can skip outta Doge, you make damn well sure they know exactly how you feel.
That you detect the presence of scum when it comes to them.

Someone raised in an household of fear and hostility might be so petrified of their parents and the consequences and too naive or ignorant to know they can get help. Their parents might be unimaginably cruel but the person will still see them as their mother and father and find it hard if not impossible to part ways. If you had the inner strength, good for you, but not everyone is that lucky.

Perhaps, then again I can't speak from experience here. My family was (thankfully) not religious at all. However, even if they were religious, I'm known by everyone in my family (including extended!) to have the absolute worst temper and very strong will. Once I was to set myself into doing something, there was no stopping me until I decided to stop

[metalangel]

Perhaps, then again I can't speak from experience here. My family was (thankfully) not religious at all. However, even if they were religious, I'm known by everyone in my family (including extended!) to have the absolute worst temper and very strong will. Once I was to set myself into doing something, there was no stopping me until I decided to stop

That's what I've been trying to say, that you don't really understand what you're trying to offer solutions for, and they are long, complex problems that don't have quick easy solutions.

That temper and will would have been ground out of you at a very early age in the situations we're talking about. That's why those GenJ kids are homeschooled - because the parents know that if the kids see too much of the real world, they might realize life doesn't have to be this way.

(watches the thread wandering off into the wilderness)

[Guest Poster]

Unless your parents are beyond full-retard, they can't do anything worse to you than reprimand you.

Or forbid you from watching TV, using a computer/console, accessing the internet, take away whatever other things you find fun in life. Then they watch YOU squirm in boredom.

[Potato]

Unless your parents are beyond full-retard, they can't do anything worse to you than reprimand you.

Or forbid you from watching TV, using a computer/console, accessing the internet, take away whatever other things you find fun in life. Then they watch YOU squirm in boredom.

Until they go to work, go shopping, leave the house for any other reason, or go to bed.

[metalangel]

You're still thinking in the mindset of it being you as you are right now, not the person living in the actual situation who has had their spirit so thoroughly crushed that they are terrified of being punished and will obey out of fear. Maybe they tried it once and suffered a terrible punishment? Maybe they get locked in a room when the parents go out?

LOL ROFL DUMBASSES

[Silentcook]

Play nice, peeps.

[Banana132]

I told one of my best friends one night when he asked what I was doing and I said "Having a feels trip straight from hell." and he was like what do you mean? I then sent him the link to the game. He looked at it, read the description, called it anime porn, and this is why we can't have nice things.

[Potato]

You saying "feels" in casual daily conversation is why we can't have nice things.

But yes, yes I have. Only vaguely. Never by title or specific content.

[ParagonTerminus]

You saying "feels" in casual daily conversation is why we can't have nice things.

But yes, yes I have. Only vaguely. Never by title or specific content.

Exactly. I've taunted my friends with pictures of Hanako on my phone, and spammed it in Hangouts chats, and yet they're still too stupid to do a reverse image search.

[SpunkySix]

You saying "feels" in casual daily conversation is why we can't have nice things.

But yes, yes I have. Only vaguely. Never by title or specific content.

Exactly. I've taunted my friends with pictures of Hanako on my phone, and spammed it in Hangouts chats, and yet they're still too stupid to do a reverse image search.

I actually don't know how to do those...

But yeah, I told only my best friend, who went on to make Hanako his waifu.

[ParagonTerminus]

You saying "feels" in casual daily conversation is why we can't have nice things.

But yes, yes I have. Only vaguely. Never by title or specific content.

Exactly. I've taunted my friends with pictures of Hanako on my phone, and spammed it in Hangouts chats, and yet they're still too stupid to do a reverse image search.

I actually don't know how to do those...

But yeah, I told only my best friend, who went on to make Hanako his waifu.

Bring him to the forums and I shall integrate him into our dark cult of waifuism give him a warm greeting.

[SpunkySix]

Y'know, he showed up here briefly, then disappeared. Haven't asked him why.

[ParagonTerminus]

Y'know, he showed up here briefly, then disappeared. Haven't asked him why.

Probably saw me. Tends to scare people away easily.