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I was sheltered to the harsh realities of the world for the most part. My parents made it seem like the world was perfect but imperfect. But I was Like I was untouchable. It was confusing.
Listening to rap was the thing that brought me closer with the world I feel most. 2pac most specifically at least at first really made an impact on my life .
When I was 18 I felt weed was doing something for me. Maybe it helped anxiety but I also felt it made me more in touch with things. Also got me into more precarious situations met people my parents would never expose me near and blocked me off from. My first r rated movie I saw at 8 years old. My cousin vinny. My family loved it. I was always allowed to see pg 13 movies tho.
But overall sheltered in some ways. But maybe I confused illness with sheltered a bit. But was probably both ways for sure.
I was a very driven child.
Driven everywhere.
Not really. Sheltered how?
Controlled. Having strict rules to abide by. Not exposed to certain things which might be normal and fine for others.
For example, my father burnt my Harry Potter books because they were of the devil.
I was sheltered in so many ways.
I had lots of freedom but my parents were overprotective of me.
I think this screwed me up big time.
I developed agoraphobia because of a limited life.
There are certainly different ways this can be expressed. I think some parents who shelter their children try to do so in a nurturing way, and others use punishment for anything outside of their norm as a means of absolute control.
I suffered from agoraphobia for a number of years too. Couldn’t even go see Beethoven’s ninth with my boyfriend it was so bad at one point. I’m glad I’m past it.
My parents are with the times considering their age I’d say. Overall they’re hip.
But my moms from the Bronx and I feel she thought moving to the suburbs I’d have a perfect life and no problems would arise.
No one expected it. But I feel once 9-11 happened it triggered anxiety for my dad and for everyone. There was a disconnect after that. He didn’t talk to me much growing up towards the later years. Once I stopped playing baseball we still talked a few words here there but hardly. My mom complained of all the silent dinners when I was in Hs.
I feel I’ve learned a lot but sometimes wish I had a less chaotic life. But hell ■■■■it it’s been fun the last few years
The realization came to me at age 19 when I first got sick that I was overprotected. I didn’t really get around too much as a kid, mainly stayed in my own neighborhood or my own street. My friends were the same though. So when I was 19 I snuck in bars and went in bad parts of town. Tried to make up for my childhood. It was interesting sometimes but it didn’t really help.
I went into bad parts of town cuz we had shitty weed connects lol there was a year or two we had to get weed from a Jamaican dude in the shittiest neighborhoods around. He always had us driving all over town. Damn we were dumb. He would rip us off constantly too. But I thought it was cool to do at the time.
Sort of? I mean, I grew up poor in a very rural midwest US town. There weren’t too many kids in that area that weren’t sheltered to some extent just by the kind of area it was.
But I grew up fast because of â– â– â– â– that happened to me. I was homeless and living in my car at 16. Plus access to chatrooms in the middle of the night at age 10ish. D!ck pics loading one pixel art a time and more pedophiles than I could count.
Yikes @LED !! I stayed away from those section of the internet until I was 18!! Just sports forums for me lol
Yes.
My childhood was the opposite of sheltered. My parents were protective like most parents are but I don’t think they had a clue what I was up to. I usually did what I wanted and when they said I couldn’t do something a huge argument would sometimes breakout. When I was young that got me labelled with a “behavioural problem” because I didn’t always get in line and do what I was told.
I’ve learned a lot of lessons the hard way but I have few regrets. I have had the freedom bug since I was a youngster, I don’t like having restrictions put on me or being told what to do.
Let’s just say I grew up being the spoilt brat of the bunch until I had to get a job of my own and went to church and Badminton training. Stayed at home at all most of the time, private school and home schooling and such. Till this day, I still am more privileged to be able to ask for what I want and get some of it as compared to my siblings who have to work for it.
I wasn’t sheltered. I was outright abused by my father. Physically, emotionally and sexually. And my mother was nothing but a doormat. She wouldn’t or couldn’t protect us kids. I was abused by him throughout my childhood and adolescence.
And I don’t believe that being sheltered as a kid is a basis for eventually developing severe MI. Sorry @Wave .
I wasn’t making that correlation, I don’t believe so either.
I was more so making the correlation to feeling sheltered as an adult because you have mental illness, and people seem to believe that makes you a child in need of supervision.
I dont think so, i was preety happy when my father wasn’t around, he would get drunk and do a bunch of less fatherly stuff.
I remember his last joke before he died, he told me i can use the pc because he has something to do, told me i did a good job in the garden ( that was the joke) after a couple hours i went in my sister room, he was hanged in the middle of the room.
My mother is cool and nice thou so is my sister
I grew up in a good home, but a lot of my friends didn’t and I suppose that sort of rubbed off on me. I learned about how nasty the world can be through them