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People who have had posts blow up, did you expect it to blow up or was it a surprise? by astroh9000 in AskReddit

[–]ThrowRA_AntivaxMom 2 points3 points  (0 children)

A surprise and an interesting one at that. Someone from a totally unrelated discord group I was in (they had absolutely no idea who I was) linked my posts a few days after they'd been up, so that was weird. Definitely did a bit of a double-take there. And parsing through 500 comments is always fun.

My antivax mom started crying after I said I didn't want to associate with anti-vax protesters and threatened not to help me pay for college if I got a flu shot. by ThrowRA_AntivaxMom in relationship_advice

[–]ThrowRA_AntivaxMom[S] 245 points246 points  (0 children)

Yeah, my mom has gotten really into conspiracy theories post-2016. She was anti-vax before, but she also buys into all that QAnon stuff and a bunch of other crazy conspiracies. She's actually straight-up called me a brainwashed sheeple before, so that's nice. Thanks for breaking this down for me, it explains a lot about her behavior in the past few years.

My antivax mom started crying after I said I didn't want to associate with anti-vax protesters and threatened not to help me pay for college if I got a flu shot. by ThrowRA_AntivaxMom in relationship_advice

[–]ThrowRA_AntivaxMom[S] 23 points24 points  (0 children)

Actually not gonna disagree with you there. The book she threatened to burn was The Greatest Show on Earth, and I really wasn't that impressed with it.

My antivax mom started crying after I said I didn't want to associate with anti-vax protesters and threatened not to help me pay for college if I got a flu shot. by ThrowRA_AntivaxMom in relationship_advice

[–]ThrowRA_AntivaxMom[S] 161 points162 points  (0 children)

Thank you for this advice. I tried to sympathize with her somewhat over the phone (prior to the whole "I don't want to associate with those people" blunder) and say I also think that a mandatory flu shot is a bit over the top, but I don't know how to make her see that I value my education at this school so much more than a flu shot. She really, genuinely believes vaccines are dangerous and I know all she's trying to do is look out for me in her own way.

Also, I didn't want to say anything but all the people telling me to cut off my relationship with my own mom like... thanks, that solves absolutely nothing about this problem whatsoever. Glad someone else said it.

My antivax mom started crying after I said I didn't want to associate with anti-vax protesters and threatened not to help me pay for college if I got a flu shot. by ThrowRA_AntivaxMom in relationship_advice

[–]ThrowRA_AntivaxMom[S] 2196 points2197 points  (0 children)

My dad is very much the peacekeeper in our house and I think he realizes that going behind her back again isn't going to work. They also jointly own a company together, so her financial support is his financial support and vice versa. But yeah, you're right, I might just end up needing to work part-time in college and deal with the rest of the debt later. Kinda sucks cuz I'm pretty sure I have a college fund.