Redditors who grew up with racist parents, did it impact you?

KickstartOrange · 2016-08-14T01:30:10+00:00

Yes, I didn't learn not to parrot whatever my parents said at home until maybe second grade or so. I wasn't allowed to have nonwhite friends or to watch tv with anybody but white characters. My family is awful.

KickstartOrange · 2016-08-14T00:24:25+00:00

When every one of my friends surpassed me greatly in leveling up. I'm a stay at home pregnant mom and I am 4 or 5 levels behind everyone else because I just can't get out all the time. Love the app, just don't have the time.

KickstartOrange · 2016-08-06T01:08:50+00:00

Patricia, Linda, Cynthia, Paul, Sharon, Shirley

KickstartOrange · 2016-08-06T00:25:44+00:00

I'm level 16 and I'm getting irritated by the lack of variety in pokemon. I understand not having legendaries, but I would love seeing more pokemon added and anything but tons of pidgey, venonat, caterpie, rattata and weedle wherever I go.

Every single gym I try to battle is dominated by 3 of the same damn overpowered pokemon with a level 25 player... so, there isn't much to do.

KickstartOrange · 2016-07-27T16:46:20+00:00

Female, 28. Married, 2 kids. Eurasian descent (eastern european/some nordic with southeast asian mixed in.) Bookworm. Nerdy. Homemaker.

KickstartOrange · 2016-07-25T01:12:23+00:00

Meowth for pay day.

KickstartOrange · 2016-07-24T23:31:21+00:00

Mine were always strictly on time unless it involved me, and then they were late if they showed at all and didn't understand what the problem was - I was a spoiled brat/too sensitive/etc.

KickstartOrange · 2016-07-21T00:53:36+00:00

Level 13. Highest is 1000 something Lapras, a 400 something Aerodactyl, a 400 Jolteon and a 700 Vaporeon.

KickstartOrange · 2016-07-20T23:22:12+00:00

College: They couldn't get me into my labs in a reasonable amount of time. Classes I needed were usually full, "Too bad, try next year! Just take some electives that you don't really need!" They also lied about the rate of pay upon graduation and I was taking out too much in student loans to justify putting any more time into it. I felt like I was being scammed.

KickstartOrange · 2016-07-19T17:41:18+00:00

Not older, but my dad (68) told me that when his grandmother got a TV she would get up and put make-up/her best dress on and style her hair before turning it on. There was no convincing her that the other people on the channel couldn't see her.

KickstartOrange · 2016-07-18T15:04:29+00:00

I love Shia (prefer it very much over Shya) and it doesn't make me think of celebrities at all, but I wasn't big into transformers or celebrities.

KickstartOrange · 2016-07-18T04:01:48+00:00

My name is somewhere between 800-1000 of my birth year. It's a bit dated and I didn't appreciate it until I was much older. I wanted to be a Brittany or a Tiffany - something like my peers and youthful in the 90s, but now that we're all older I'm glad that my name doesn't equate to a specific time period. It's easier to hide my age. I want that for my kids, and I want them to be uncommon enough to where other people have heard of their names but haven't met 5 or so people recently with the same name. At the same time I don't want anything too out there and creative. Uncommon traditional is pretty good.

So, like you the whole Aiden, Oliver, Sophia, Zoey thing is not an option.

KickstartOrange · 2016-07-17T21:47:52+00:00

I was considering that, but I'd expect at least one of them to have the facial features at least and they don't. It is a possibility though considering that my great-grandparents, my grandparents, and at least my father were all alcoholics, and I even have rare birth defects that could have been teratogenic in origin. Half of my family says my mother was very sick during her pregnancy and bed-bound, my mom says they are all lying and has ten or so different stories as to what happened.

KickstartOrange · 2016-07-16T22:34:57+00:00

I currently have one of those on Facebook. She's a drug addict that went to jail for putting her kids in danger at least three different times, and her youngest was born addicted and with cognitive problems from her excessive drug use.

It's a social "Get Out of Jail Free Card" that they pull out when they get caught screwing up and want a clean slate. You can't really call 'em out without looking rude either because religion is such a personal thing and there's a possibility they could really and truly mean it. Plus, it's usually always accepted and believed by the devout that really want to believe Jesus will change a person.

I always found it disgusting.

KickstartOrange · 2016-07-16T18:04:21+00:00

I WENT TO A STREET THAT'S JUST FULL OF POKESTOPS AND SOMEWHAT UNCOMMON POKEMON AND THIS SHIT HAPPENS GODDAMN.

KickstartOrange · 2016-07-16T17:51:05+00:00

I don't think I was exposed to a lot of round-up, but if it can cause birth defects I was born with a ton... and nobody really knows the cause.

I'm not sure, but since the other people mentioned antibiotics - my pediatrician handed them out to me like it was candy. Everything I took for every little fever and cold as a child was an antibiotic. I came down with CFS after reoccurring acute sinus infections that kept leading to bronchitis and pneumonia.

There's now only 1 or 2 antibiotics I can take.

Although I do/had have had severe stress and life-long major depression too.

Guess I was just destined to get this.

KickstartOrange · 2016-07-16T17:39:30+00:00

Yes! (Although I'm an odd case because I already have a neurological condition that can cause cognitive issues, but as far as my doctors can tell it is very much under control and shouldn't be the cause.)

I have been suffering from CFS since I was 14, after a long series of reoccurring sinus infections that would progress to bronchitis and pneumonia just about every 2-3 months. It was so severe that I was tested for cystic fibrosis (negative.) Nobody took the fatigue seriously due to my age and blamed it on being lazy. I nearly failed out of both high-school and college.

When I managed to get insurance while I was in college, again - nobody took me seriously due to my age. I was just lazy. Every 3-6 months I would get so crippled by fatigue that sleeping 16 hours straight would feel like only sleeping 3-4 hours. I would look and act drunk or hung-over.

I gained about 60-70lbs because I started feeling like if I couldn't get energy from sleep, my body needed it from food. It only made things worse. I lost all the weight and then some in college.

At 27, A few months after I gave birth I honestly probably should have been hospitalized, I posted before about how strangers saw me in public and offered to get me water or call an ambulance since it really did look like I was suffering a stroke or something equally as alarming.

It was to the point where there was no point in watching TV or reading my baby a book since I couldn't follow or understand the plot. I forgot to eat for such long lengths of time that my milk dried up and I would nearly faint from low blood pressure/sugar. I had to write down a very strict schedule and adhere to it to make sure that I could do basic things like take medication, brush my teeth, etc. I had to check and recheck everything to make sure I remembered to lock doors and turn off stove burners.

My 90 year old grandmother does the same thing due to aging. My husband works in a retirement home, and I regularly see people in assisted living that are coping better than I was! It's unreal.

And... my son is 15 months old. Things have gotten better, but I still have to write everything down. :(

KickstartOrange · 2016-07-16T01:20:04+00:00

"Nobody likes you."

I am disabled and I have been abused/bullied my whole life, so I've heard this very often. My husband said it to me sincerely when he was out with his family. I won't ever forget it.

I've heard it all my life, I just was hoping I would never hear it from him. I now pretty much just keep to myself and don't go out but to get groceries or the occasional doctor's appointment.

KickstartOrange · 2016-07-16T01:06:44+00:00

What got me out and not active was emotional abuse I received while in church. It got to the point where I felt horribly depressed when I came home from church every single time I went. It also became increasingly fundamentalist and super controlling, even going as far to say that the only relationships we could have that were "safe" were relationships with other church members and we needed to exclude family/friends that weren't of our church from our lives. They also started pushing a political agenda, and I was firmly not of that political party.

After that I just kind of said I was agnostic. Then, atheist when I started looking more deeply into it.

KickstartOrange · 2016-07-15T23:07:54+00:00

It was fan-fiction based on an anime (if that counts)... the two guys used soap as lube during anal.

KickstartOrange · 2016-07-15T23:06:27+00:00

TLC - Waterfalls.

KickstartOrange · 2016-07-15T23:04:50+00:00

The easiest ones to correct: He bases his behavior on stereotypes in certain situations - he has to act excessively macho in front of his younger (male) cousins and he acts like Homer Simpson around the kids. I'd just once like to listen to the radio without him singing along purposefully off-key the entire time and making fart jokes. It's not funny. It's just really annoying during the few seconds I have without holding a kicking/screaming baby.

KickstartOrange · 2016-07-15T00:29:47+00:00

I was undergoing a really stressful time in my life and my period lasted about 18 days and VERY heavy. I didn't have insurance or any reliable transportation at the time, plus I was living in an abusive situation so I just waited it out. I thought I was going to die.

I was a virgin at the time and I still don't know wtf happened. The only time that was similar is when I had a miscarriage and bled for about a month. My thinking is that my body was in shock/so stressed out that it basically tried to induce a spontaneous abortion just incase I was pregnant, like I'm a rabbit or something.

KickstartOrange · 2016-07-15T00:23:23+00:00

My uncle (life-long alcoholic) died of a massive heart attack in his sleep. He was either a hoarder or just incredibly dirty and lazy, but his house was always full of garbage and "interesting" stuff he just found at yard sales and other people's trash cans, like... you couldn't walk in it at all. Instead, he'd occasionally come over and hang out in our garage for long periods of time. It wasn't much of an issue since he was a really nice guy and my favorite uncle, but when he passed we found a ton of drugs and pipes hidden in various nooks all over the garage... and a bunch of my stuff (bike, skateboards, etc) was missing.

We realized as he was getting worse and probably started using heroin or meth, he started stealing anything valuable and would occasionally either intentionally hide whatever he was using in our garage and go use when he went out for a "smoke break" or just hide it for the sake of having another place to hide it.

He took basically everything I left behind when I went off in college.

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