As a particularly awkward child, I only learned that you could share each others' business. Shit stopped pretty quickly when I talked about theirs.

My 10 yo anxiety stories became MY topicstarters now - work great every time!

Then later she would always whine about how I never told her anything.

I'm pretty sure this is why I have a compulsive need to hide literally every action I do from others

Ahh the piss drawer.

Wtf mom?!

As a parent, I'm sharing all the weird things my kids are doing in my journal and then locking it away forever.

They do so many weird things. And the fear is just like this picture: friends come over and I suddenly pop like, "Oh yeah my 5yo decided to be a dog today and pee on the neighbor's yard."

So putting it on paper hopefully releases the demons.

When I describe my 10 year old life to other folks they tell me I was an abused child.

Mostly because I spent a lot of time out in the woods with my friends and playing video games, and apparently that's 'abuse/neglect' by today's standards for children. I was supposed to be doped up on meds and have every moment of my childhood filled with 'productive activities'. Probably why I am not depressed and anxious like many of my peers.

Apparently letting your children have unsupervised unstructured time is child abuse now.

No thank you, I have a handful gripped tighter than I did with those GME shares.