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04 September 1988
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Can you imagine being a parent to this kid
I lived down the street. I wasn't Susie, I was more Rosalyn.
I hope the babysitting money was good!
The family down the street had 6 boys with ADHD in the 80s. Oldest was 12 when the youngest was born. Think about that for a second. Let it fester. We're practically family. They had seven different locks, all different types on the front door (and this town was safe as bumfuck nowhere) just to keep this little guy inside, probably a total fire code violation and you KNOW how i feel about those, and CPS got called on them because their youngest had wandered around the neighborhood. We were just hanging out in the street and we asked him "hey, we're you get that apple? You don't have any apples at home and we don't have any apples" He just pointed and said "that house!" he was 3. like dude had no sense of ownership yet but y'know. "that house!" were petty bitches so they called a CPS report rather than accept an apology and a quarter. While CPS was there they looked at the locks, were going to write them up for having too many locks, they were looking the other way and little three year old snuck up, undid all the locks and was out the door. Literally behind the CPS agent's back while they were in the room. So like, that report they got off fine. And this kid, he was the least rascally one.
Do you ever wonder what the generation before ours was like? Like from the stories my dad tells, he was basically a cult leader of a bunch of teens in the street and would walk around barefoot preaching pop store politics, getting into traffic accidents and giving the police the run around, all consequence free. And then he grew up and became a functioning member of society.
Same with my grandparents generation. Kids would fall into wells, murder each other, lose limbs, be subject to all kinds of normalised abuse, and then just.... grow up and become functioning members society. Neurotic, abusive, horrible people in some cases.... but functioning members of society
Why them and not us? I'd say it's because deep down everyone is a lunatic but if you have a job and a semi-permanent home, it normalizes you to some degree. You have a purpose and role in soceity, even if it's a bullshit job. It's a daily grind that synchronizes you to the schedules and goals of others and it's stable enough that even someone with severe mental issues can follow.
Our generation does not seem to have the luxury of stable jobs and housing. So we're nuts, but fewer and fewer of us have less means to normalize our neuroses under the guise of having a daily ritual, so our neuroses become our main defining features and this gets reported on a lot.
this post was submitted on 04 Sep 2025
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