Things people raised by strict parents would understand
If convincing your mum and dad that you should be allowed to sleep over your friendโs house/go out past 10 pm/breathe on a school night was part of your daily struggle back in the day, you probably grew up with pretty strict parents.
Here are 23 things only people who grew up with strict parents will understand.
1. You were always the first person who had to leave when everyone was hanging out.
2. Asking permission for a sleepover at your friendโs house took 37 hours of mental preparation, a detailed power point presentation of your friendโs family tree, and a signed contract in your blood saying you wouldnโt drink and would be in bed by 10pm.
3. Whenever your friends would make plans for later that night, you knew your parents would say no because it literally took them 2-3 business days to process whether they would allow you to go out.
4. You would practice asking your parents for permission to do something in the mirror and preemptively come up with answers to questions you knew theyโd ask.
5. You also always had to wait until they were in a good mood before asking for anything.
6. You sometimes whipped out the wounded puppy look and would sigh and say โnever mindโฆ youโre going to say no anywayโ to garner sympathy from your parents before asking for a really big favor.
7. You would ask your parents once, and only once, if you could hang out at someoneโs house. You never understood why your friends would think that โasking them againโ would make anyย difference.
8. You always had to choose between going out on either Friday or Saturday night because thereโs no way your parents were going to agree to both.
9. You understand THE PURE, UNADULTERATED PANIC that channels through your veins when your idiot friends change the plans 10 times and you have to keep reexplaining to your parents what youโre doing.
10. You lied constantly. About everything. You still do.
11. You never cursed until you got to college.
12. You never had โThe Talkโ with your parents. They probably left a book on your bed about your ~changing body~ and let you figure it out.
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13. Family dinner conversations revolved around your academics and class scheduleโnever about your social or love life. As far as your parents were concerned, you didnโt have either.
14. To this day, you still canโt get dressed without wondering what your parents would think about what youโre wearing. Middle and high school were a 7-year war over whether that skirt was too short or if the words on your Abercrombie shirt were too suggestive.
15. Getting one piercing in your ears was the extent of what you could do to your body. If you even thought about dying your hair an unconventional color, getting a tattoo, or even getting a second piercing, hell would freeze over.
16. You probably shared the same first name as at least 4-5 other people in your classes growing up.
17. You always changed the channel if your parents walked in on you watching something where the characters might kiss.
18. Your parents always tried to sign up to chaperone school functions and field trips.
19. Manners were everything. You got the โI donโt want people to think you were raised by wolvesโ speech almost as often as the โis your napkin not on your lap at the dinner table? Do you do this at other peopleโs houses? I canโt let you out in public if you donโt put your napkin on your lapโ lecture.
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20. Youโve spent years dreaming of rebellion in the form of making spontaneous plans or wearing flip flops to the airport.
21. Your impulse reaction to hearing your friends say they had sleepovers with their significant others is an open-mouthed shock.
22. Youโre careful telling jokes to your parents because their response toes the line between laughing along to immediately going off on a 45-minute rant and probably sending you to your room afterward.
23. If you miss one phone call, your parents suddenly assume youโre smoking โthat marijuanaโ with โthat one friend of yoursโ they KNEW was going to be a bad influence.
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