Hi time it is time for me to vent about an event that happened a long while ago but thought I was over, but apparently I’m not because I just realized it still affects to this day!
I’ve only ever been to one con in my entire life and just realized that my first experience is the reason why I haven’t even bother trying to organize another con trip since even though I would actually really like to go to another one.
I’m not saying that this kid is the only reason why that trip didn’t go well, but she was the majority of the reasons and if I listed everything then this post would be way too long. Anyways I basically got tricked into spending most of the day watching a very problematic 14-15 year old.
We had a big group including my at the time new boyfriend who I was hoping to hangout with and take a bunch of couple cosplay pics with, but that didn’t happen because I ended up having to watch this kid instead.
I had just turned 18 and knew this girl because we had drama class together and her mother was a teacher of mine that I was close to and that’s why she was invited to come with. She convinced her mother that it would be fine if she went by herself because I’m an adult and she trusted me to be responsible.
No one in our group knew about this until she met up with us. She didn’t understand how irresponsible that was and whined that she thought it would be ok because I was 18. I couldn’t and still can’t drive, I didn’t have her mom’s number, I only had enough money for myself to get something to eat and buy a small souvenir and was not aware that I’d be and wasn’t willing to be responsible for her. What if something had happened? What then? At the told I thought it would’ve been mean to make her call her mom to get her so I decided to suck it up and humor her, it couldn’t be that bad right? But it was
She was incredibly clingy with me the whole day. To the point that I couldn’t spend anytime with my bf without her getting upset about it because she didn’t like him. She claimed he was a cheater because he was a flirty person and she didn’t understand the difference.
She would demand I walk around with her so I could take pictures of her with other cosplayers and didn’t understand, even after they and I explained why it was inappropriate, why grown adults didn’t want to accept her hugs or take any pics that could be considered shipy with her. Again she was like 14 or 15.
She also kept trying to get me to talk about very nsfw ship stuff with her and would not drop it no matter how many times I told her to and would complain that she ‘talked about this kinda stuff with her other friends so why wouldn’t I talk with her about it?’
In conclusion, I have a slightly irrational fear of being put in charge of literal child without my consent or knowledge again and that’s why I’ve never been to another convention.