“Trapped Under the Chopper: 40 Adults Reveal the Dark Truths of Growing Up with Helicopter Parents”
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#4
I started standing up for myself and telling them off but I also struggle with being self-sufficient, especially with ADHD, so it’s a vicious cycle. Especially when I can’t afford to move out.
Standing up for things they don’t agree with is pretty useless. I got yelled at for politely requiring consent every time my mom logs into my university (!!!!) student email/account to “help me manage my stuff”, plus she doesn’t even do it when she grudgingly agreed after she was done being offended. I remember her announcing to me over dinner she had gone in my account and enrolled me in a class for my bachelor’s without asking me first while I was away at school. As an adult this makes me very uncomfortable.
Edit: f**k it you guys are right I’m changing my password live. I will get yelled at soooooooooooo bad but worth it.
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#5
They tried to ground me after I came back from serving in the Marine Corps. Tried to take the keys to the car I own and prevent me from getting an education.
Told my Mom she can pound dirt and my Dad that if he didn’t fix himself and nut up to my overbearing Mom. I’d never talk to the two of them again. Got in my car and drove off was homeless for a minute until I got enough for an apartment.
You’d think that me moving out and being homeless instead of living with them would be the thing that made things click.
No. About a year after my move out. I’d reconnected with my family and agreed to take my mom to her aerobics class one day since her car was in the shop.
