I had to cut out my father and my paternal grandparents because they literally flat-out refused, by their own admission, to respect that I'm transgender, going as far to say, in their own words, that they will NEVER be okay with it and guess what they did when I told them I want to go no contact? They accused me of being close-minded for excluding them over a "mere difference of opinion!" Maybe some of these parents that PragerU is talking about should get awareness. You can't negotiate something that is non-negotiable. If I say "It is a requirement for you to not deadname me to be in my life," and they explicitly admit that they refuse to stop deadnaming me, then what's the middle ground? Nothing. They were trying so hard to have their cake and eat it too, and they were going as far to give a whole "BuT what iF iT'S OkAy fOr US To DEAdnAMe You ThO?," trying to justify their deadnaming instead of simply saying "Well, you're right! We don't want to stop deadnaming you, so maybe it makes sense for you to cut us off!"
I don't even understand how they think that'll work in practice. What are they gonna do when my appearance gets too feminine for their own comfort? What are they gonna do when my voice starts sounding like something they're not used to? What are they gonna do when I meet someone they know and they want to introduce me by my deadname even though literally everyone in my life besides them already knows me as Angel and that name is on my government documents too? It's such a mind-boggling way of thinking that the only form of their logic I can derive is that they somehow think that being in my life will manipulate me into not transitioning and being content with being cis, but clearly that isn't the case because I was out to them for a bit over 6 years before giving them Angel's ban hammer.
They have two options: be transphobic or be in my life, but they can't have both. They wanted so hard to be transphobic that they stayed out of my life, even though I sense that they'll still try to disrespect my boundaries sometime in the future. They literally used my affirming gay uncle as a proxy to wish me happy birthday, and that was a few weeks ago. It's sad because it indicates that they don't get the memo and that they should operate under the premise that I'm not in their life anymore because I'm not! Who does it benefit? Do they think I, the one who cut them out, somehow think it's a "good, noble gesture" for them to go so far to wish me happy birthday when their numbers are blocked and I haven't interacted with them since I told them to fuck off? Mind you, my grandparents especially are the kind of people who would agree with PragerU on a lot of subjects, so this post isn't anything surprising to see from Pennis Drager.
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For what it's worth, I'm super happy that you're here
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imagine how shit of a parent and reprehensible you have to be as a person for your kids to cut you off in a place and time where the older generation controls so much more wealth and the only social safety network is family support systems.
just absolutely god-tier parenting failures, and then to see them clustering around think tank communities affirming them as morally right. reminds me of that study about how narcissistic personality disorder was clustering around "grandparents' rights" internet support groups.
All I said was insert racist thing and my kids got mad. When I told them to stop being woke sjws they told me they never wanted to talk again. I laughed because they always say stuff like that in their rebellious phase, but now they won't even call me
Parents cutting off their children when they turn 18 and throwing them out to the streets: okay
Adult children not talking to their parents: not okay
Shitty AI art
Did Prager fire the people who did the little stick figure drawings for him?
The old guy kinda looks like
my dad was horribly abusive before he got help for his many undiagnosed mental health issues. still have PTSD from those times and the bad shit that came afterward when i moved out way too early with no prep.
so yeah im kind of low contact now that im fully financially "secure". they still don't know im trans yet and may never
You should just send them a link to your hexbear account
I wonder what the Venn diagram of "parents who think it's okay to hit their kids" and "parents whose kids cut them out of their life" is
the virgin cutting off your parents vs. the chad being so fucking insufferable that your parents pray you don't call them more than once every three months
So become a libertarian like my brother?
I appreciate the representation of us unapologetically obnoxious people in this thread
My dad's had it figured out for years
My mom's not a chud just emotionally abusive but she's in the "why are you cutting me off why do you hate me" era too
Turns out buying your grandson who's 11 a handgun and 12 rules for life can make your kids upset.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/12_Rules_for_Life
Tis a duzey.#I am not a bot, but a person that likes to link things.
>be antisocial
>nobody wants to socialise with you
Maybe viewing your kids as property has consequences when they grow up and can legally tell you to fuck off forever. Just maybe. The world will never know.
Wishing redemption and reconciliation for this AI pep pep
The only thing you gotta hand to them is a pipe bomb
Why would I hand them a pipe bomb?
yeah, they should earn it
Wow I had no idea Donald Rumsfeld and PewDiePie were related
frothing CHUD Grandparents somehow becoming pro-China when they hear about that [i'm pretty sure it was fake/mischaracterized] law to mandate visiting your parents
There's a law that requires financially supporting your parents to some extent.
Also, the visitation law looks legit, too
We have filial responsibility laws in some states too
all i ever heard from my mom was how i needed to get a job and earn whatever i needed or wanted in life.
that was rich coming from a woman who only ever worked a job for about a total of 2 years in her life.
the rest of the time we scraped by on my dad's meager salary until he died and she collected on his life insurance, social security, and worker's comp.
My parents are libs but it’s been almost two years of virtually no communication.
is parenting like that saying about politics where the people best suited for it want nothing to do with it?
Maybe because some of them are tired of parenting their spoiled brats of "parents".
It's the best explanation of this phenomenon from a years old article
"I know the truth. My child also knows this truth. My child is lying to me."
Pure gaslighting from a position of imposing their perspective of the world on others rather than hearing the perspective of everyone and incorporating a worldview around that.
I'm more upset at the catholic church than anything else: just have kids and things will work out. FFS my parents were far from emotionally ready, nor did they really want kids past the cute ages of 0-1. If all my parents wanted to do was to watch TV and socialise, they should have gotten cats. I wish someone told them that.
Literally the simpons meme "am i out of touch? No it must be them that are wrong".
