#my parents are weird

[krowkeeper]

Me: * hangs out with my parents as an adult*

Me: oh my god. I understand why I’m so fucking weird now.

[segrahd]

Guys why in the fuck did nobody tell me the haikyuu movie was so fucking good?!Like maybe i would have bought a movie ticket and a train ticket to a city to go watch it the moment it released in theaters in like may or whatever!Like omg it was so good and I was so hyped and sad after i finished my parents asked me if a guy asked me out like I ain't even joking

[sebastianshaw]

Dad: *watching chinchilla ls for me while I clean their cage*

Me:*comes to get them*

Pashmina: *jumps into his arms because the door scared her and/or she doesn’t want to go*

Absolute spoiled little Daddy’s girl. Takes after me.

[sandygarnelle]

My mom is def neurodivergent or smth

(Original chat pic was translated in google translate so yeah it looks weird)

[darnedchild]

When I was about 13ish, Santa left a pair of colorful underwear in my stocking. Green with a picture of Santa going down a chimney on the front.

At the time it was cute and funny.

As an adult... what the fuck?

[deepspaceclawstation]

Apparently I have watched The Birdcage, with my family no less! I'd seen it referred to here but never connected the dots that it was the same movie I'd watched many years ago on tv, probably when I was a teenager.

I don't remember my parents' reaction to it but since I'd seen some of it and no one changed the channel, they were at least engrossed enough to watch? They can be cool about stuff sometimes, they are just very unpredictable about it.

[achilleswins]

So, I'm pretty sure like... Everyone knows those parents that go "don't have sex until marriage", right? Yeah, my parents are the opposite.

And I'm not exactly talking about how they allow me to have sex before marriage or whatever. They WANT me to have sex before I marry someone. It's quite funny, actually.

[can-of-pringles]

Having parents be like: *watches them watch a YouTube video about different types of bathtubs*

[prankprincess123]

It has been said that my family has the energy of the Addams Family, just replace gothic with geeky. The same is true with my parents, down to the multilingual flirting, with Ada's second language Hungarian and Maman's French. And somehow it took me almost 24y to realize that Ada does not call Maman 'dragon' but "drágám" which means 'darling'. I genuinely thought whenever Ada was dramatically fawning over Maman and proclaiming "szeretlek drágám" he was saying "l love you dragon" and I just accepted it.

[inkskinned]

having good & true friends will literally save and protect you in a million unfathomable ways. like okay we have written so many times about lovers. but the way a platonic friend laughs and cries with you. the way they hold your hand at 14 years old and at 34. the way they keep a little silver tie to you, touching base over and over and over. how you can go years without talking, only to re-meet and discover: oh shit! you're still cool!

there are people who have been in my life for more than half of it, and i have loved every version of them. do you know how fucking beautiful that is. yeah love will save the world. but the way friends love you is gonna save the you.

[fightme5]

Here is a weird picture of when my father was trying to grow weed in our backyard

[welcometogrouchland]

[ID in ALT] I've made posts before about Talia/Dick co-parenting Damian moments (will never happen but let me dream) and this came to me in a vision. Took me ages to finish for some reason 😭 and then even longer to post

[divorcedfiddleford]

hold shifty gentle like hamburger

[froegs]

family

[dwarfysays]

When you are at your twilight years, would you be OK with dying?

I feel like the ones who cannot accept death, do not really believe in God or eternal life. They genuinely have no faith. But they do make a show of being religious when they can. Which begs the question: do the “faithful” really believe?

Would the “faithful” fail when tested?

My parents are prime examples of the questionably faithful. Both in their mid 80s, have stage 4 cancer with other health issues. Both want every effort made to resuscitate them. Many who are as advanced in age and disease progression would take DNR (Do Not Resuscitate). Both my parents do not want that. They don’t care if the CPR breaks their bones.

I had a very stressful confrontation with my father. In addition to the stage 4, he has diabetes, asthma and COVID. He had no understanding that he had to stay home and recover. He tried to make a break for it outside. He was very combative as I physically forced him back into the house. If he wasn’t so old and so sick, I may have let him go for a walk outside.

He is angry and scared. I am too, but I’m sticking to my guns in assuring that he will not harm himself. I can’t talk to him because he is hard of hearing and a little cognitively disadvantaged. On top of all that he is stubborn. He is a 3 year old in an old,old man’s body. I’m frustrated with his uncooperative behavior and my mom’s refusal to eat. She too has COVID. Both are on antivirals. Both no longer have fever. Only my mom is still coughing and lacking appetite. Well, my dad still coughs, but does his best to suppress the cough and make himself appear strong. He is frail and any fall could break his hip. If that happens, that would be the end. Not recovering from broken hip when you are that old and that advanced in disease state.

I know both are supposed to use their walkers and with assistance whenever they get up to “walk” elsewhere in the house. But now, I let my dad walk without a walker. He seems fine. I just follow him. His anger probably provides the power for him to walk independently. Just not going to tell my sister about that.