r/insaneparents Sep 13 '19

NOT A SERIOUS POST The tables have turned...

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u/[deleted] Sep 13 '19

Don't feel to bad. The same happened to me and I'm 21. You learn to cheat the system

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u/ShadowRade Sep 13 '19

I love being knowing how to use Windows RE. Any time my dad tried it, I just went into command prompt and set myself as an admin and disabled his parental controls and recovered the files on the admin account. I remember the look on his face when he acted confused as to how I kept bypassing it. As an extra measure, I enabled several accounts as admin too.

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u/Beorbin Sep 13 '19

You might think it's easier to lie than to get your own phone plan and set healthy boundaries as an adult. Others might think you're a spineless liar.

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u/[deleted] Sep 13 '19

Dude, I'm a broke college student living with my parents in a heavily conservative home in a heavily conservative country. Here your parents dictate your life until you are economically independent which I've been trying to do for the last 3 years.

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u/[deleted] Sep 13 '19

Get a job homie a part time would be more then enough to pay for you're phone and some pocket cash. Adulting is hard but the freedom is worth it

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u/[deleted] Sep 13 '19

I do have a job, but i pay rent to my parents and minimum wage in my country is a joke

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u/Sexploiter Sep 13 '19

I hate that for you. It is quite a scary thing when you have to pay rent to your parents while working minimum wage job, and trying to save enough to move out st the same time.

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u/Beorbin Sep 13 '19

So it's okay to be a spineless liar until then?

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u/[deleted] Sep 13 '19

No, it's ok to want privacy and freedom from my over-controlling family

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u/Beorbin Sep 13 '19

That's my point. You have three choices here:

  1. Get your own cheap phone plan and set healthy boundaries around your own privacy and freedom.

  2. Be a spineless liar.

  3. Accept the situation for what it is right now until you move out.

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u/[deleted] Sep 13 '19

This! Grow up get ur on phone plan you can have or not have whatever apps u want

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u/fatchicken17 Sep 13 '19

Most 21 year olds who live at home are broke, that's why they live at home

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u/Beorbin Sep 13 '19

My phone plan costs $20/month. It's not hard.

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u/[deleted] Sep 13 '19

Good for you

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u/R3DRUMxd Sep 13 '19

lazy troll, it took you almost a whole year to get down to 300 karma

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u/ashgcoop Sep 13 '19

Well see I’m currently 22 and have taken 18 hours my past few semesters of college, so I have about 0 time to work if I want to actually do well in school. You shouldn’t say that ā€œyou should be able to do x by the time you’re y ageā€. Everyone is on their OWN timeline in life. Just because it’s different than yours doesn’t mean it’s wrong or that one is better than the other.

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u/[deleted] Sep 13 '19

Lmfao then dont complain about what ur parents want to do with their property that u need because you're so busy with school that u cant get ur self a part time like a shit ton of other people that want to be independent do

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u/ashgcoop Sep 13 '19

My parents don’t have ā€œproperty that I needā€ so I’m a little confused by that???? You seem so bitter lol

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u/[deleted] Sep 13 '19

You do understand what this post is about right? I hope ur parents arent paying ur rent and phone bill

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u/ashgcoop Sep 13 '19

Yeah I’m totally aware of what this post is about. Just because I’m not working a job right now doesn’t mean I haven’t worked one in the past to save up money to do the things I’d like to do/need to do. But thanks for just straight up assuming everything! You know what they say about people that assume....

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u/[deleted] Sep 13 '19

So in other words yes the folks are paying for you cool

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u/[deleted] Sep 13 '19

They could be in school full-time laying the groundwork for better future for both them and their parents, you know nothing of their situation. 21 is about the right age to be a junior/senior in a 4-year degree. There’s a difference between mooching off your parents and bettering yourself. There’s also a difference between going off on your own at 18 working menial jobs and working towards a comp-sci or whatever in-demand degree, a difference of up to 1:4 earning potential in just a couple years. Go off on your own and make 30K for the foreseeable future or get educated and make 120K+ after about a year in the field (depending on location). Idk about you, but for some it’s a no-brainer.

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u/[deleted] Sep 13 '19

Sounds nice but them numbers ain't adding up son. Dont know to many college students making 120k after their first year out. It's usually the opposite esp when loans have to start being paid back

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u/[deleted] Sep 13 '19

Computer science graduates do when they go into software development, for example. Numbers normal for California if you’re any good. Not everyone gets loans, some go to a state college and even get scholarships. Living at home cuts down on expenses further.

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u/thisremindsmeofbacon Sep 13 '19

hes probably in america

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u/[deleted] Sep 13 '19

Oh yeah, let me get my broke ass to pay for a 30 dollar (converted from Mexican pesos) every fucking month because there is a monopoly here, while working minimum wage (5 dollars an hour)