⋁⋀ᚱし∪ﮎ on Nostr: I feel like we don't talk enough about how it's perfectly acceptable for parents to ...

I feel like we don't talk enough about how it's perfectly acceptable for parents to just... Steal, destroy, throw away, or otherwise lock away access to things that belong to their kids. Usually under the excuse of "I bought it" or "I provide for you", therefore it's actually their property to do whatever with. That literally everything their kid "owns" is actually just borrowed until it can be used to hurt/punish them in some way. The normalization of telling someone reliant on you, that they literally have *nothing* and that anything can be taken away for virtually any reason, so long as it doesn't legally count as neglect (and let's be real, the law doesn't stop shit parents from being shitty).

Then half the time it doesn't even stop there. Even if the KID buys their own toys, they can *still* be taken away or smashed as a punishment, because ultimately "my house, my rules", or a belittling of people's time/efforts ("You're young/spry, you can work more" kind of stuff). Like it's insane, right? Like everyone is shocked when they hear it, if they had a good home... But anyone who's had parents like this knows they aren't the only ones in their area who did, ya know? Like all my adult friends have stories about our parents throwing away our toys, because our parents decided we were getting too old for that shit. All of us still salty and upset about it as adults, because it wasn't just about losing our stuff, it was that we had no damn say in what happened to our stuff because we weren't allowed to have things our parents didnt THINK we should have for purely subjective reasons.