these parents are INSANE

THESE PARENTS ARE INSANE

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[randomxxzz]

This whole subreddit is the definition of "Why don't my kids talk to me anymore?"

[michaelbrawls]

Every child deserves a parent, but not all parents deserve a child
--Xavier

[ConnorPugs]

My parents have always been super normal so these crazy parents are always so interesting to me

[trianglemoebius]

My mum is a major control freak. I actually managed to get a job that let me move out - nowhere great, but better than being with her - and she kept calling the police and leaving leaving anonymous tips about people smoking weed in my apartment complex. She was - and to be clear she told me this to my face eventually - hoping they'd search the area and catch me doing something wrong eventually, so she could bail me out of jail and I'd feel I owed her one.

[starsnshimmer]

The meds one, oh god. Assuming these are antidepressants, they will not "be fine." I've never quit my meds, but I have missed doses. Just missing one dose usually means I spend 2 days with constant anxiety, constantly shaking, paranoid, often times end up throwing up and being unable to eat. I'm usually unable to function for two or three days, and afterwards I often struggle with my depression being worse. And thats missing ONE dose, when I take them twice a day.

[YeeticustheMighty]

Lol I'm this video makes me so grateful for my parents, they're actually decent human beings and truly love me. They actually teach me why there are some things I shouldn't do instead of just saying I should do them. So many of these parents seem to have completey ignored their kids until adulthood and then expect them to know how to be perfect adults. If your parents are like any of these in the video, Im so sorry for you, just remember that your parents don't own you and you don't have an obligation to make them happy

[shrk_]

seeing all this manipulation and narcissistic tools the parents use on their kids is disgusting 😕

[Internet_No_Body]

You want an insane parent story? Here's one.

Back when I(9) and my sister(8) were in primary school, we had assigments we hadn't done. We'd instead watched cartoons, messed around, did basically anything else as our mom(who, was a stay at home mom btw) said nothing all day. Then, as we were about to go to sleep, she asked us if we had done it, which, we said no to.

She then proceeded to tell us we couldn't sleep until we did it.

And so, me and my sister(both with undiagnosed ADHD) desperately tried to do our assigments while suffering from sleep deprivation as she slept. Why didn't we just sleep? Well, she was an emotional abuse kind of mom and we didn't feel like we could get awa with it. I think we finished/gave up at 3AM or something(we woke up at EIGHT AM), and collapsed onto our beds.

Oh yeah, and also I'd like it if y'all said exactly how bad it is, because, uh, it seems kinda bad but not that big of a deal to me. I mean, looking objectively I can see how exactly it is fucked up, but a part of my brain just says "meh, that's normal, no biggie.", so anyone who didn't have a bipolar fucked up narcissist as a mother giving their perspective would help.

[jarjarthebredloaf]

One time my parents started calling me childish and immature while I was crying. They were trying to force me to tell them what was wrong when I didnt know and I just wanted to be left alone. We were going to Texas Roadhouse at the time and I thought I ruined everything because I started crying. Turns out I got overstimulated and had a meltdown, because my parents refused to turn off the music, and that with the sounds of the car moving was too much I guess. Not too bad but its still a bit bad.

[startingmap]

No crazy parent story yet but I do remember being forced to, along with every other kid in school, walk in a big circle around the recess area like some cult in elementary school as a punishment and I don’t even know what we did

[mythilinarla]

I was 12 back then, and I was a pretty good brother to my sister, 4. However, my sister was downright spoiled. One time, she was trying to cry on me for no reason while I was with her and the family eating dinner. My father, her lackey, yelled at me while I just sat down and gave him the Saitama look. My mom was looking over at us when I told my dad, "I am drinking my water and eating my food, I didn't do anything." in a rather calm tone. Then my mom walked over and told me that I was being rebellious. Over the next 4 years, things got pretty better. But that, was the dumbest statement I ever heard from my mom, the wise person in the house.

[theevildrblue]

my step-mom took us with no parental rights, kept the money my grandma was donating to be able to take care of us, and spending it on her bio-daughter, my dad was always at the store or outside smoking and didnt realize that i was getting emotionally ridiculed to the point of anxiety and depression and getting bruised almost daily, being forced to sit in my room with no access and only eating PB&J for a month, being made to eat food made on a stove with *maggots* on it, fruit flies in the house everywhere. she hit my *cousin's POODLE* repeatedly with an extension cord, and a BUNCH of etc.

[notatrampoline]

If my mom told me to stop taking my SSRI's i would genuinely try to take it to the courts if possible. That is genuinely so gross

[djwitheredbonnie]

I don't normally get crazy moments when it comes to my parents, but one that I can definitely think of off the top of my head is something that happened when I was little. Whenever a kid is introduced to something, they tend to either mock it, imitate it or even enforce it. Something like this is normal because this expresses how much they love it.

For me however, it was imitating more than anything. This occurred whenever I was playing a Scooby Doo game on the very first Xbox ever made, and I love the monster's so much that I began to imitate them just for fun. As a child, I was just having fun, but my dad thought otherwise. He absolutely hated whenever I do this, to the point where he took the Xbox and the games away and hid from us for good..

As I got older, this habit grew scarece, but it was still there, but then the habit of playing a game for hours kicked in, that's where the "1 hour rule comes in". For those of you who don't know what that is, you basically only get an hour to play the game you chose before you had to get off for the rest of the day. This rule was dropped overtime since I was able to finish the game rather quickly, with my dad forming a whole new rule.

If a game is super long, the 1 hour rule stays, but if it's a game that you could finish within that hour or less, he would do what I call a "Level a day rule". This rule is pathetic, who hops on a game just to play one level and then get off? It kills the experience and even kills your mood. I was so mad by these rules, so I ditched the shorter games for good and never played them again.

I understand that there are rules like these to keep your eyes out of the screen and prevent things like eye strain, but these rules become punishments over time and make me real mad.. you've got to be sinister to not only kill the experience for the player, but to kill their personality as well and prevent them from living a happy and joyful life.

2023 is here now, and the original Xbox is back in my hands AND I can play for as long as I want without issue or being told otherwise.. these punishments and adjustments were stupid to begin with, when time eventually got told and became the best I could ask for. My childhood may be reunited, but as far as the terms of me and my dad.. not looking too hot right now..

[benjaminoupillovers]

My dad started hitting on my facebook friends as soon as they came of legal age. It was so humiliating having your friends come, show the phone and say "uhhhh, is that your dad hitting on me?!". It was 10 years ago and he still think it's an ok behavior.

[ToxicWasteX]

About a week ago I was in the car. I had my coat sitting under me because i wasnt cold. My dad noticed and went MAD: he was grasping at me, screaming, and making the entire car shake. Then, once we got home, he took everything out of my room and told me that i needed to earn it back. this was because of a literal freaking coat.

[PneumaChronos]

I have ADHD and my way of organizing things seems very messy to other people including my mom and she will barge into my room at random and start "cleaning up" which includes throwing anything that's on the floor away (including money) and moving stuff without telling me where she put it, normally it's not that bad, just kinda annoying but one time she threw away $240 worth of my video games that i paid for.

[mrshimmo]

The truly crazy parents are the ones that won’t let the kids go online to post said story

[endlesssupernovacaine]

Most of my insane parent stories are depressing as fuck. I'm on bad terms with both of my folks, yet still living in their house because economy. My father, however, I was on better terms with until a few years ago. Imma go with this insane parent story because it's a little more funny/entertaining than the stuff my mother has done.

My father wanted a specific shake from Arby's and asked me to go get it. Not a big deal except that said Arby's was two counties away. And there was a blizzard and ice on the road. I was initially reluctant but he "guaranteed" the road was safe and it was silly for me to worry about going out there.

I asked him if he wanted to go with, he said no, that I could do it myself, my mother also said no, and seemed on the verge of screaming at everyone anyway, she usually is. I asked if I could take a stuffed toy for comfort, she let loose the torrent about how I was an adult and I was being incredibly immature by carrying around stupid stuffed animals. At least I would have something that I could hug if I went off the road and died in a ditch, lol. I would've felt a lot more love, lol.

I drove out there, only car on the road sliding everywhere and nearly crashed a few times. Arby's was closed for inclement weather. When I got back and asked why the hell he thought the Arby's would be open. He said that he had tried to "impress" Ma, by reading the weather report in Spanish. He does not understand a word of Spanish.

So from her perspective, he sat there and jankily said in a language he clearly didn't understand a word of, that there was a blizzard and dangerous road conditions, then grinned, content with his complete understanding, and announced that it was perfectly safe to send their 18 year old daughter out there to get a fucking shake.

I did get an apology... "I'm sorry the Arby's was closed."

[DemiSuaton]

I once was talking to this person on YouTube who got mad because ppl were saying children need privacy, he came up with multiple stupid reasons why and basically would lock their child up or something like that. He then proceeded to write a gigantic paragraph for basically not letting a child have fun and see the real world. Yeah I just told them to see how much that would hurt a child.