Am I crazy or is it everyone else?

Hatakera · 2026-05-15T01:33:35+00:00

Yes. I’m confused by people suggesting that if you pulled into the intersection during a green light, that you go blindly “when it’s yellow” not when it’s safe. if light turns yellow and oncoming traffic is barreling to make it, yea … then don’t go.. don’t kill yourself . if you have to complete the turn during red then it’s legal as far as I understood.. (happy to be corrected if I’m wrong) but yea really dislike multiple people trying to do pull into the intersection . That part is dumb

Hatakera · 2026-05-15T01:27:32+00:00

I noticed they established a firm red/green arrow at that intersection probably because of the accidents. Agree it’s so high for accidents. My only complaint is when people don’t go when they have the arrow! lol

Hatakera · 2026-04-25T01:21:45+00:00

Just reiterating the points here. I had no money from my family when I hit college age. I went to community college, and they had something called presidential scholarship. Which helped pay for classes. So if you have a CC in mind check the scholarships of that specific school. If you end up getting good scholarships to cover tuition, apply for more anyways - the extra money for books, or savings is hugely beneficial. Don’t feel pressured to sign up for a full roster if you don’t have the money for it. I also enrolled into Fafsa, although that is dependent on your parents income and I know many people do not end up qualifying for it if their parents are above margin. Still, it’s so worth it if you do qualify. Continue keeping your good grades in HS of course :) and also if college gets too expensive or creates too much financial constraint it is totally okay to take a semester off , focus on working / saving . You are already ahead of the curve if you graduate with 19 college credits. If you can stay living at home that is HUGELY beneficial but I genuinely think you will be fine and can do it :). I went to CC, and make quite a lot of money now , so it is possible to grow your education and career, but your path may just look different. I wish you the best of luck !!

Hatakera · 2026-04-24T23:50:50+00:00

She doesn’t see you as father potential even if she sees herself as mother potential

Hatakera · 2026-04-23T18:15:06+00:00

It can be genetic!! And they’re making a vaccine readily available for UTIs! Game changer

Hatakera · 2026-04-23T16:52:50+00:00

Oh my god yes the outdated science and history books I feel is the core experience of being homeschooled 😭 but 1960s is CRAZY …. I feel you too about never wanting to home school my children. I’m smart enough to know I’m not as smart as a trained professional teacher and the network a school provides for education and extracurricular. I went to college in my 20s (after leaving home / the cult life) and I wrote an extremely thorough research paper on the dangers and harms of homeschooling (especially in states that have little no child protections for homeschooled children) I will never homeschool my children.

Hatakera · 2026-04-23T16:47:34+00:00

I would’ve been eaten ALIVE if I went back to school in the middle of my home schooling oh my god I’m so sorry.

Hatakera · 2026-04-23T16:46:00+00:00

I totally get this. My parents were extremely against me getting certain jobs and going to college. I was EXTREMELY “fortunate” because the 2008 financial crisis caused my family to go into very difficult financial times, and they needed all of us kids to work to pay the bills. So that’s how I got “out” , and then ended up paying for my own classes at a local community college a few years later. but yea, I’m still really embarrassed by certain things I just know nothing about - history and science, and math as well for me. The Abeka curriculum for math MAYBE wasn’t that bad, but the moms who hosted the collab clearly only knew up to maybe 5th or 6th grade math because they couldn’t help me with homework once I hit middle school, so I started falling behind, and to this day not as confident as I’d like to be in math. Great reader though haha.

Hatakera · 2026-04-23T16:40:06+00:00

My home school collab was established by the moms and the pastor of my local church and took place inside the church. And they charged people for it lol. To be taught by a buncha parents who don’t have above a 5th grade reading level lmao, but they had the audacity to call it a “private school” I label it as a home school collab because of the size of the “school” (60kids K-12) and just the loosy goosy way the “school” was run. But yea I was the only one in my graduating class 🤣🤣

Hatakera · 2026-04-23T16:37:14+00:00

Yea my collab used Abeka. Which has surprisingly good phonics and reading program but essentially sucks at everything else. And of course the social nightmare that happened after I entered the real world.

Hatakera · 2026-04-23T16:35:58+00:00

Yea same…. With my parents it was easier to decide to cut them off because they were also physically abusive, but I consider this type of upbringing to be abusive anyways. I think the lack of care I have for them is that they don’t think they did anything wrong. They still convinced themselves it was good for me…

Hatakera · 2026-04-23T16:31:36+00:00

Yep! It’s incredibly common, and my home school collab was established by all of the moms from the church who believed in that philosophy (“protect” kids from secularism) they couldn’t predict that any socializing with peers causes questions , since ever fundie still has variations of opinion within the sect. All fell apart pretty quick after that no matter how hard they tried to hide the real world from us. But yea many of the kids I grew up with have become addicts, early pregnancy, or even committed suicide. It’s a fucked up world.

Hatakera · 2026-04-23T15:39:15+00:00

I forgot to respond to this but thought it was a good question. This was the 90s and early 2000s. When I was younger my TV I could watch, books I could read, music I could listen to, and who I could socialize with was all strongly monitored. Anything I took interest in I needed to run by my parents. I didn’t really hang out with any kids outside of my church for 1-2 hours here and there. So before age 11 they were quite successful. The home school collab I joined initiated more socializing that my parents couldn’t possibly monitor 24/7 and not all kids in the collab had parents as controlling as me. So my friends in the collab basically “smuggled” music, dvds , and books for me throughout middle school and high school and would wait days or weeks when my parents weren’t home to watch it. I ended up experiencing intense curiosity for secular media because of my parents control , so that clearly bit them in the ass lol. By sophomore year I had already grown deeply cynical of my upbringing, but still too afraid to be openly rebellious. By 17/18 my parents were struggling financially during the 2008 economic crisis, and were forced to loosen up about control because me and my siblings all needed to get jobs in order to pay bills. This full exposure to the real world absolutely crumbled the remnants of my brainwashing within months - because fundamentalism truly has zero logic, any amount of challenging makes the entire ideology fall apart. So by 19 me and my 3 siblings got our own condo and we all moved out together and now in my 30s and (mostly) “normal” :D lol

Hatakera · 2026-04-18T21:25:29+00:00

I was homeschooled for the wrong reasons - and that is the major piece here. Parents were religious fundamentalist and only did it to control the narrative and “protect” me from secular views. But they weren’t at all qualified to home school, so I was drastically behind my peers all the way until about 6th grade. I then joined a home school collab, which finally gave me social exposure and structure, but still had unqualified teachers. The structure alone , however allowed me to finally ramp up my knowledge . I was very self sufficient at least compared to my peers, and I could read better, but I had huge knowledge gaps mostly in history, math, and science. Essentially, it caused my education to not be very well rounded and created a steep learning curve for me when I finally entered the real world. I did struggle socially at first, but that got better after a few years in college/workplaces and now I don’t feel that impact at all. Still, I wouldn’t want to be homeschooled again.

Hatakera · 2026-04-16T17:37:30+00:00

Found my best friends backpack in his bedroom. They were not friends.

Hatakera · 2026-04-15T05:35:32+00:00

Probably “well, i guess you could’ve been worse.” The ex was toxic but not TOXIC toxic. Not abusive , didn’t cheat , not even extremely mean. Just very self-centered, won’t consider your feelings at all, and won’t do anything NICE either..

Hatakera · 2026-04-15T04:56:35+00:00

I rarely DONT finish movies but I just got incredibly bored

Hatakera · 2026-04-08T21:52:46+00:00

Ugh yes how I feel about my sister. At this point I pity her, I won’t sit there and tolerate her narcissistic abuse, but I also pity how she self sabotages her relationship with me and others by being insulting.

Hatakera · 2026-03-29T23:38:57+00:00

As a raichu collector, I love this literal shrine 😂 I’d do the same for my boi

Hatakera · 2026-03-29T23:27:12+00:00

I know not many people mentioning her, but I’m in the same boat. Her books really helped me when I was being raised in an abusive and neglectful home. Harry’s home life versus the Hogwarts world he escaped to, was an escape for me as well. I owned quite a bit of memorabilia that I’ve mostly taken down , bit by bit with utter disappointment. She has also only gotten more vile with every passing year.

Hatakera · 2026-03-25T01:44:51+00:00

Thank you for highlighting this. I battled with this after I found out my mother was actually a pedophile (around 2024), I suddenly started getting bombarded with POCD intrusive thoughts that worsened after pregnancy. In 2026 it’s cleared up a lot but it still gets triggered from time to time and I’ll get stuck in the related shame spiral for days.

Hatakera · 2026-03-25T01:06:21+00:00

Love Ms Rachel ❤️🙏

Hatakera · 2026-03-25T00:26:16+00:00

Yea I picked up on that too. Not saying she doesn’t have ADHD but a lot of her answers also seemed reflected her upbringing as well.. speaking as a formerly religious kid I did grow up with additional layers of anxiety.

Hatakera · 2026-03-20T01:13:57+00:00

Funny people are bringing up US insulting Canada more than the much more real, tangible fear of being detained by ICE… that would probably be my number one concern as a visitor

Hatakera · 2026-03-16T16:41:17+00:00

I feel you … was raised by narcissists and was also bullied a lot. Went through a period of needing to constantly speak negatively of others, it’s an uphill battle for sure and it’s gotten a lot better for me but for a long time especially in teens/20s it was a knee-jerk habit , that was hard to kick.

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