When I was a kid, sometimes it felt like my parents didn't understand what I was going through.Around the end of 8th grade, I was at a really low point in my life.>School was getting stressful>All my friends had abandoned me for being an autistic weirdo>Everyone my age was getting girlfriends while I couldn't even talk to a girl Basically, the only escape from it all, the only source of happiness in my life, was my 3DS. Everything in my real life may have been going to shit, but playing a little Pokemon Sun seemed to make it all go away.Then one day, my parents called me into the study. I felt sick, because I knew what this meant. They were checking my grades. One missing assignment and I'm fucked. Sure enough, I had a single missing assignment in geometry. I tried to explain myself, but they didn't want to hear it. No more video games until the assignment was taken care of, and my teacher for that class wasn't the most punctual about updating grades. They didn't actually take it away though, so I snuck on it a few times, but one day my bitch sister caught me and told my parents, so then they took it away. I begged and pleaded them to give me some other punishment. I told them that that little bit of leisure was pretty much the only thing keeping me going, but they just mocked me and said I was "spoiled" if getting my 3DS taken away was such a big deal. I don't think I've ever been as close to killing myself as I was in that moment. The next few months were absolute hell. I had no escape from the real world.Of course, as an adult, I have to deal with real adult problems now, but at least now my escapism won't get taken away by some all-powerful authority who's supposed to love me. Also, I did eventually get back at my sister by secretly recording her talking to her friend about eating pot brownies. Played that recording when she was least expecting it and she got what was coming to her.
>>84475310>She got what was coming to herWhat did they do to her anon?
>>84475336I don't remember exactly, but I'm pretty sure they took away her iPhone for a really long time and made her stop hanging out with most of her friends.I say it was an eye for an eye. She made me lose my substitute for friends, so I made her lose her friends.
>>84475310I'm glad my parents were so laidback and depressed growing upMe and my little sister got into so much shit and rarely got any punishment other than being yelled at I can relate to your escapism thoughI'm not overly into video games but I day dream different scenarios in my mind of a more ideal life, particularly one where I have more power and control in life
Pokemon games used to be so good... I looked forward to each of them and would play them for dozens of hours at a time. Anyways I recommend Persona 4 Golden so you can get back that childhood you deserve, if only for like 50 hours.
>>84475310>Everything in my real life may have been going to shit, but playing a little Pokemon Sun seemed to make it all go away.>They were checking my gradesI had to redo 8th grade (to this day I can't really grasp how ... went from B student to D- / F ... and I wasn't even bullied ... quite the opposite ... girls liked me) was close to failing the second time because my habit of playing vidya turned into a full blown addiction where the only thing i could think about was playing some shitty f2p shooterin order to keep my mom from pulling me out of school and sending me to another (lower level) one I forged my report cards by fotocopying themthe rush and stress still haunts me today, I also developed severe OCD around that time (though it was already present couple years ealier) tl;drI think your parents did the right thing ... yes you "were close" but what if you failed school?
Now they're $300 used in case you need one. Nice story.
>>84475381I dropped out of high school because my parents punished me every time I fucked up and I just stopped caring about anything
>>84475395ohwhy tf did they allow you to do that?isn't highschool like the bare minimum in the US?
>>84475401I was doing alright in my classes, I just ignored everything that went on and read all day and did fine on all my tests and whatnot. I was in a few honors classes. Got called into the office and they told me that I was being incredibly disrespectful by reading instead of paying attention to my teachers and I told them to kick rocks because they never taught me anything that I couldn't learn in 10 minutes of skimming the text book. They made a big deal about it and basically forbid me from reading during the school day and I just stopped engaging with them completely because those books were the only thing that were bringing me any joy I'm in my early thirties now and obviously I am not a well adjusted individual nor am I a productive member of society
>>84475310some parents have no idea how big things like this can seem to a kid. when you're a kid getting a video game console taken away from you could literally be the most stressful thing you've ever experienced up to that point. it shows a lack of empathy i think.
>>84475444>look at how desperate he is for a coping mechanism>we should take it away from themTruly addressing the symptoms and not the problems
>>84475426fuqq manthats just sad... but not like 95% of people who went the normal route are doing much better i guess
>>84475310My mum broke my ds lite and my super soakerShe would pull the power from my computer tooFucking bitch lol
You're not that guy who used to look up furry scat porn on the web browser of one of these, are you OP?
>>84475381Even with the missing assignment I had a B+ in the class.
>>84475401Once you reach a certain age you can drop out of high school without your parents' permission. The exact age depends on the state. I think it's 17 in mine.
>>84475511Fuck no I wasn't that much of a degenerate>>84475383I got it back eventually. Still works.
>>84475310I always wanted a 3ds growing up lolI had a nintendo dsi and like 2 gamesI've been thinking about buying a 3ds for like 100 bucks
>>84475604Unfortunately the 3DS has become a trend amongst tiktokers so the price has shot up.
>>84475444I mean I get punishing your kids when they screw up but taking away their only source of happiness in their life during a difficult time is just cruel.
>>84475310You know why? Because your parents have no time nor will to even care about your problems.You're supposed to be like all the other kids, if you're different it just brings more stress to your parents, with makes them mad. You're supposed to be normal.
>>84475826See I don't think they really knew how much of an outcast I had become. They probably thought "oh, he'll be fine, he can just have fun with his friends" without knowing that all my friends had left me.
>>84475835Your normalfag parents don't even know what it means having no friends or being an outcast. That's not something they are able to even comprehend. The entire situation just makes them mad because you're not like their friend's kids.
>>84475851You're right. Normies have zero frame of reference for what it's like to be ostracized for your interests. Their idea of that is "my friends say I'm weird because I listened to a song that was more than three years old once."
>>84475860On the bright side though, losing all of my friends taught me an important lesson: "Be yourself" is utter crap. I learned the importance of hiding behind an impenetrable shell, just going along with what everyone around me is saying, and never ever telling anybody about my interest or opinions under any circumstances.
>>84475310Holy fuck this have me PTSD about that horrible feeling of dread I'd get whenever my parents checked my grades.
Boomers are fucking deranged and inhumanBoomers will unironically kill their own kids if they think some kind of authority will pat them on the back for itWhich is basically how they destroyed and sold off a thriving economy at the expense of their children
>>84475381i developed severe ocd in 9th grade to the point where i couldnt do literally anything so i just slept every day away. i smelled like shit and nobody liked me except for one friend but i only had 1 class with him and only for one semester
>>84475310Same but my computer. Thankfully my parents couldn't literally take it away since it was big, but it was the only thing I had since I failed at everything outside BUT my grades. Even then good grades didn't give me friends obviously.>>84475349Actually based.
>>84475310i really miss the ds formfactor. i hate that handhelds are all basically tablets these days. being able to close it and protect the screen was a bonus too.
>>84475426>Got called into the office and they told me that I was being incredibly disrespectful by reading instead of paying attention to my teachers and I told them to kick rocks because they never taught me anything that I couldn't learn in 10 minutes of skimming the text book.There's something real fucked up in punishing the student who actually reads.
>>84475914She was the "rebellious one." She was always doing shit she wasn't supposed to. Skipping class and underage drinking and shit. Actually worked out in my favor since when my parents were mad at me it usually wouldn't last long because she'd do something way worse not long after and they'd completely forget about whatever I did. She'd get into hours-long screaming matches with my mom almost weekly. In fact, my 3DS was actually a way I'd distract myself from said screaming matches.
>>84475936I mean you're supposed to pay attention in class but yeah it's stupid to not let a kid read at all.
>>84475663>Unfortunately the 3DS has become a trend amongst tiktokers so the price has shot up.GrimI saw Japanese 3ds on ebay for around 100-150 though
>>84475663The worst part about normies infecting niche hobbies is that they drive up the price of everything and those prices never go back down after the trend dies.
>>84475310>Pokemon SunRight choice but damn that Gen. was garbage!
>>84476809Normies are the unthinking pawns of higher power capitalist autists. You'd think that fellow spergs would somehow be sympathetic to their kin, but I suppose by very design the robots have no such comprehension of such concepts. My experience of life leads me closer and closer to a conclusion that the world is just a massive game of Spy vs Spy (Autist vs Autist).
>>84475860Same kind of people who say "I'm romantically inept" and then go on a date.
