Something that has been stressed upon to a cliche status trope in media is how parents ignore the privacy lines that growing teens create. How parents try to barge into their social lives or just make general fools of themselves in front of their children's friends. Above all we teens love to find a little hole in the internet and make an online hideout for ourselves that few in the real world penetrate with nothing more annoying than parents discovering it for themselves. I am personally not against parents keeping tabs on their kids to keep them safe but come on, if you barge into their social life with the mentality of a previous generation embarrassment and shame ensue. Something I stress again parents cannot seem to figure out. I personally have little social life outside of chatting with people at the gym and running the school 3d animation club. To compensate I use Deviant Art to connect with other artists and chill, just be myself, something I seldom do in public because I am a high functioning autistic and tend to be rather strange to other people. Thus online it is. Problem is my parents been very invasive. Not because they are concerned but because they are simply curious, something harmless enough but anybody else in their teens will know what I am talking about when you simply want to be alone, even online. So why can my parents not give it to me and have to be assholes when I convince them to leave me alone?
I know this has been touched upon in film and television often but that is fiction thus what have your experiences been and how did you deal with them? Nosey parents who are not interested in protecting you but rather invading on you real and online social life that is.
Note: This is not a rant or anything of the like, I am not in a world of hurt or angsting or thinking my parents are the worst for penetrating my li'll self centered universe of me, nothing like that, rather I am curious why parents are like this and how you took care of it. Hope this thread proves insightful.
EDIT: I see people are taking this the wrong way. It is not about parents nosing in to see what I am up to, to see if I am doing anything that they disapprove of. It is about how I cannot have an online place where I can shut out the world for an hour or two because my parents are socially invasive.
Think about that Disney movie where Goofy's son Max goes to college and he cannot give him his space. Now apply that to real life and online, dumb it down about 25-40% depending on the circomstances and you have it.
I know this has been touched upon in film and television often but that is fiction thus what have your experiences been and how did you deal with them? Nosey parents who are not interested in protecting you but rather invading on you real and online social life that is.
Note: This is not a rant or anything of the like, I am not in a world of hurt or angsting or thinking my parents are the worst for penetrating my li'll self centered universe of me, nothing like that, rather I am curious why parents are like this and how you took care of it. Hope this thread proves insightful.
EDIT: I see people are taking this the wrong way. It is not about parents nosing in to see what I am up to, to see if I am doing anything that they disapprove of. It is about how I cannot have an online place where I can shut out the world for an hour or two because my parents are socially invasive.
Think about that Disney movie where Goofy's son Max goes to college and he cannot give him his space. Now apply that to real life and online, dumb it down about 25-40% depending on the circomstances and you have it.
