#parent tag

[based--ball]

my parents are both asleep on the couch (and lightly snoring) and idk how they manage that given how loud we have the tv and how much i am clapping every time the jays do something good lol

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my mother, very loudly: "CRAPballs"

(i agree)

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my father, re vladdy's bad season: "he's been flatter than a pancake"

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my mother: i think they've been cursed

me: oh?

my mother: like a curse. witch stuff

my father: like buffy stuff. maybe they'll all start singing

my mother: maybe it's a.aron j.udge

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my mother (atheist), on joey loperfido: "so damn him to hell, right?"

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me: joking about how george is my "controversial fave" (due to sign stealing 2017 etc etc)

my mother: "well now he doesn't cheat anymore, now that he has the loving embrace of his pals"

me: ?

my mother: "now he feels more affirmed so he doesn't have to cheat to feel good about himself"

[azuremist]

Some people have good relationships with their families. But I can’t imagine it.

We’ve all seen that post being surprised that some people smoke weed with their parents, which is applicable to what I’m saying, but there’s a lot of other things I hear that leave me shocked, too.

People have parents who support them going on HRT, or even help provide it. People have religious parents who didn’t indoctrinate them as a child, and let them make their own choice as they grew. People have parents that have never hit them or punched a wall in fury or yelled at them. People have parents who did not shame them for being curious about porn as a teen, and didn’t do insane things to try to punish them for it. People have parents that didn’t mock them when they found out they had been sexually abused. People have parents who did not openly admit to reading their diary, and who bragged about how easily they could publicly humiliate you. There are people whose parents accept their disability and who say that they can stay at their home for as long as they need. There are people who genuinely trust and feel loved by their parents. There are people who don’t feel like they have to be someone else just to be around their parents. There are people who are not, and never have been, genuinely afraid of their parents.

I can’t imagine it, because I have never truly bore witness to an alternative, or even thoroughly envisioned one. It’s too sickeningly saccharine and unrealistic — something that could only exist on the other side of a TV screen. Those people who talk about their loving, accepting parents have to be exaggerating, don’t they? Something horrible has to be happening behind closed doors that they’re just too scared to tell me.

This is just how families are.