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Guest Posted November 3, 2018 Share Posted November 3, 2018 I had to wait until I got to school to apply mascara and eyeliner because my dad wasn't okay with me wearing makeup. I also dyed my hair black without permission and he wasn't happy about that because he hated anything goth. Link to post Share on other sites
Gloomy Posted November 3, 2018 Share Posted November 3, 2018 I listened to a lot of gangsta rap when I was teenager, so I would hide that from my mom (my dad didn't really care though, honestly I often listened to it with him). I also went on Yahoo Answers a lot and much of the stuff I posted were things they probably wouldn't have approved of and I was glad my parents didn't monitor my internet usage lol. I still hide my dakimakura pillowcases whenever my parents come over... Link to post Share on other sites
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daveb Posted November 3, 2018 Share Posted November 3, 2018 My crossdressing - my mom might very well have been okay with it, but NOT my dad. For him, it was bad enough I wasn't into sports and liked to read and do art. Link to post Share on other sites
ColeHW34 Posted November 3, 2018 Share Posted November 3, 2018 Lots of things. Mainly my anger towards them for getting in my way one too many times. Then some of my nightmares Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted November 3, 2018 Share Posted November 3, 2018 How often I skipped class in high school. I hated school. I was a C student through high school as a result. Frustrated teachers, who saw my grades when I applied myself which were straight A's. We would go play at arcades. Link to post Share on other sites
SithAzathoth WinterDragon Posted November 3, 2018 Share Posted November 3, 2018 I was taken in by a lovely lady who became my legal guardian who forced me into christianity, I saw the deceit and controlling in it and left it at age 8 and never let her know until recently...she still does not believe me, even when I say I'll not pray. I still hide things from her even all these many many years later, I pretended to to be what she wanted me to be. Link to post Share on other sites
RoseGoesToYale Posted November 3, 2018 Share Posted November 3, 2018 Anything I valued, basically. My mother was a thief. If I didn't want something taken, I either had to deface it in some way or hide it in the dirtiest corner of my room. She's a clean freak, so I kept my room messy on purpose, so it usually wasn't an issue. I hid literally everything from my parents, writings, drawings, books, you name it. Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted November 3, 2018 Share Posted November 3, 2018 The online stories I read and write. My diaries as well. All my devices have passwords that they don’t know. Anything online basically even AVEN Link to post Share on other sites
Sleepykilly Posted November 3, 2018 Share Posted November 3, 2018 my folks have always been pretty accepting and i'm almost always honest with them but tattoos. i've wanted to get them since i was 17 and i really really to this day still want several but have yet to get them (mainly due to time and financial reasons). i will eventually i'm sure but my folks just hate them for some reason. Link to post Share on other sites
Epitaph Posted November 3, 2018 Share Posted November 3, 2018 I didn't have to hide much since I left them at such an early age. In irony, much of my adult life is concealed from them now that I'm in touch with them again. Dad wouldn't accept half or most of the things that I do, and Mum really wouldn't be bothered, but she'd still cause trouble. I don't let them know about my art, or my writing. And I especially don't let them know about my online activities. I tried it once before just to see as an experiment. Didn't go well. I keep my gaming from them, I keep most of my interest in sci-fi and fantasy from Dad. I conceal the fact that I try to be a walking help center wherever I go. I tell them all zero about my years spent homeless and wandering, or the deaths I carry around on my shoulders. The most flak I've ever gotten from either of them is the extent of which I go out and about to help people either in person or around the internet. They simply can't understand it and think it's silly, or risky, pointless. I could take a direct approach and be completely honest with them about my life, but I'd have to fight them for it. I'd end up arguing with Mum and probably curb stomp her emotionally for all the things she did, and with Dad, I'd end up in physical conflict. He doesn't know it, but I do. I'm not the person you want to get pissed off enough to start fighting with. Family or not I won't hold back, and that's dangerous. The both of them think that I do nothing with my life, when I suppose it can't be further from that. It's just that what I do with my life they do not accept or understand. So to me, it's better that they live in ignorance so that I don't have to fight them over being open about my life. I can live with them thinking I'm a loser. The alternative is worse. Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted November 3, 2018 Share Posted November 3, 2018 Ooh, what a fun thread I've found, hee hee... Seriously, though. There appear to be a lot of us that have had to hide stuff from our parents while growing up. So sad... (-_-) Hmm, let me see: A lot of the books I read. I was so scared to bring some of them home, so I would just read them at the library. My journals - all bombs waiting to go off! My drawings - see above entry for reasons why. My thoughts - need I say more? My sexual orientation and gender identity - need I explain those ones? My feelings - my mother never liked it when I felt something that she wasn't feeling at that particular moment. Sneaking out of the house - did that A LOT! Ditching school - sadly did that a lot as well... I could go on and on about this topic, but I think that I'll leave it right there. 😐 Link to post Share on other sites
Alawyn-Aebt Posted November 3, 2018 Share Posted November 3, 2018 I didn't really do (or when back from college during breaks continue to do) anything that they would hate, I just didn't feel that they have to know. Probably more than listed below, just shortened for the sake of brevity. Examples: Journal/Diary - I recorded and still record everything interesting that happened between days, in their fully glory even if they would have considered it inappropriate. Dreams - Mine were and continue to be horrid and very disturbing. Friends - I worried, and still worry a bit, that my parents would somehow meet my friends. My friends were, and to some extent still are, a bizarre bunch of; some Christian, some Atheist, some Anarcho-Communists, some Extreme Right-Wingers, some Humorous, some Serious, some Male, some Female, some Ugly, some Beautiful, but all Kind people but who I don't think my parents would have necessarily approved of. Watching Monty Python, Mr Bean, & Last Week Tonight excerpts on YouTube, I still have to hide AVEN sometimes if I look at it when I am home. Passwords - They knew how I pronounce them, but they were all in a language I made up when I was 10 and they could not spell them. Certain books I got from the Library - They really didn't need to see I was reading Das Kapital or Mein Kampf, just because I read them does not mean I wholeheartedly agree with them, but that would be hard to explain. Suicide Note - Had it for 2 years, if I ever went through with it I had it already written, I was just going to pull it out when I did. Never went through with it though and finally got rid of it to prevent them finding if they looked through my stuff while I was at college. Link to post Share on other sites
Ceebs Posted November 3, 2018 Share Posted November 3, 2018 My mental illnesses. OCD, anorexia, depression. Eventually they became obvious... you can't be a straight-A student who drops out of school, becomes terrified of everything, spends ages engaged in neurotic rituals, and morphs into a walking skeleton without it being apparent... but I tried. Link to post Share on other sites
EdInLeeds Posted November 3, 2018 Share Posted November 3, 2018 Any film with too much violence / sex / bad language. Books that I was reading on things that they didn't see the point of (a category that covered maths and linguistics as well as mental health) I didn't speak to my friends on the phone when they were around (I only got a mobile phone about age 16, so it was land lines for most of the time growing up) The clothes that I got a fetish out of (although they might have lost their fetish powers if they'd become standard objects) Link to post Share on other sites
vmdraco Posted November 3, 2018 Share Posted November 3, 2018 9 hours ago, Perspektiv said: How often I skipped class in high school. I hated school. I was a C student through high school as a result. Frustrated teachers, who saw my grades when I applied myself which were straight A's. We would go play at arcades. Sounds like you were just super bored, if you can easily get straight A's. In that case I don't blame you at all! Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted November 3, 2018 Share Posted November 3, 2018 21 minutes ago, vmdraco said: Sounds like you were just super bored, if you can easily get straight A's. C students are typically A students lacking a challenge, hence their slacker ways. The moment I went to college and in the work force, my work ethic was relentless. It's also the reason I often got in trouble. IE shooting an elastic at a bent over teacher's butt. Or sending a teacher in a panic in chemistry class, when he turned on the gas tap, and I made a leaky gas valve sound, sending him running to the electrical room in a running panic, to a classroom laughing knowing it was me. Some were impressed at my creative ways to disrupt a class that teetered more on funny, than punishable. Minus the elastic part. I earned those detentions. Probably why I was labeled a problem child and written off, until I had teachers who took the time to unleash my potential. In their classes. Straight A's. Helping other students. Never skipped. Link to post Share on other sites
Demi Dad Posted November 3, 2018 Share Posted November 3, 2018 my first condom not because i wanted to use it ,i was curious and there was a vending machine at truck drivers rest stop while traveling on vacation with my family eventually my dad found out (13year old me kinda forget to empty all pockets before my mom did the laundry) and received a verbal lashing of there will time for this when your older ,concentrate on your school work. it didn't have the effect he intended ,i was more sad i had that talk with my dad. Link to post Share on other sites
Salmiakki Posted November 3, 2018 Share Posted November 3, 2018 Well, from grades 7 to 9 I pretty much hid my whole life from them. My parents thought that school went really well and that I was super hard working but it was really not like that. Sure I got good grades but I didn't work for them almost at all. I barely studied. The truth is that getting through school just wasn't that hard. If I listened during class and made a quick recap of all the things we had learned before tests, they were very easy. So unlike what my parents thought, I spent very little energy on studying and instead focused on my crushes, mental health issues and all the bullying and drama that was going on at school. My parents have no idea what actually went down, it was kinda crazy. Those years were fun but also very brutal and awful. Especially 9th grade. Also as a kid I have hidden stuff like forbidden candy and porn from my parents Link to post Share on other sites
Ldlelee Posted November 3, 2018 Share Posted November 3, 2018 The Thin Mints I stole from the cupboard and tried to take with me to school. But also, my old writing. I wrote a lot as a kid but was too embarrassed to share it with anyone. I might have if my brother hadn't snooped through my room and read my very first, very rough draft, then tried to give me advice on how to improve it. He had good intentions, but I was eleven, and I was mortified. Those stories were my escape haven. To this day, I don't let him or my parents read what I write. There's also my knives, which I never use but bought anyway because I have an affinity for sharp objects. Link to post Share on other sites
Alejandrogynous Posted November 3, 2018 Share Posted November 3, 2018 Ah, so many things. My mom was extremely religious and strict while I was growing up so I had to hide pretty much all of my "worldly" interests, from books/movies/music to what I felt, supported, and believed in. One of the funniest things I hid when I was little was, I wasn't allowed to watch certain Disney movies that had "bad" themes like witches, but I found this old partial recording of The Little Mermaid stuck between two other movies that have been taped over it. (That VHS life, lol.) But the tape was so old that the colors and sound were all distorted and kind of nightmarish, to be honest. So for years I legit thought that was how it was supposed to be and I wasn't allowed to watch it because it really was a Devil Movie. 😂 Which I sneaked watching anyway because I was fascinated. Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted November 3, 2018 Share Posted November 3, 2018 @asshole *hug attack!* I forgot to mention the mental health stuff. I mean, my parents knew a little about what was going on, but they were in denial about most of it. 😑 Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted November 3, 2018 Share Posted November 3, 2018 2 hours ago, Alejandrogynous said: But the tape was so old that the colors and sound were all distorted and kind of nightmarish, to be honest. So for years I legit thought that was how it was supposed to be and I wasn't allowed to watch it because it really was a Devil Movie. 😂 I just teared up a little from laughter. That's hilarious. Link to post Share on other sites
ColeHW34 Posted November 3, 2018 Share Posted November 3, 2018 I also made sure that they never will find just what my inventions are and what exactly I plan on doing with them. Link to post Share on other sites
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DeltaBird Posted November 4, 2018 Share Posted November 4, 2018 I hoard things, like a lot. I mean, I recently found like 2 pounds of candy from last Halloween when I cleaned out my closet. When my mom put limits on how much candy we could eat, I started stealing it from the kitchen and hiding it all over my room. It's been years and she still hasn't found out about it... Link to post Share on other sites
Anthracite_Impreza Posted November 4, 2018 Share Posted November 4, 2018 My gender issues, the severity of my mental issues, childhood abuse, my objectum asexuality... Sorry, that was very gloomy 😑 Link to post Share on other sites
WobblyWallaby Posted November 4, 2018 Share Posted November 4, 2018 Tarot Cards and make-up. Link to post Share on other sites
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