Hearing your parents having sex is way less traumatic than having parents that pretend sex doesn't exist or that sexual desire is inherently immoral

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Hearing your parents having sex is way less traumatic than having parents that pretend sex doesn't exist or that sexual desire is inherently immoral - Reddthat

Lemmy

How is hearing parents have sex is traumatic jfc

At best is fucking annoying that housing unit is that shit that kids have to hear it.

That's the real issue.

Idiot parents who don't provide sex education at home are fucking child abusers.

I am tired of pretending that's their need for sky daddy is acceptable excuse to be abusers... Still in 2025

After we know what the Catholic churhc rapes children for sport.

Read my other comment.

I heard my parents going at it and thought my dad was beating my mom. He almost got a baseball bat to his head.

Yeah, when you don’t know what they’re actually doing, hearing them have sex can sound like dad beating mom, and I almost went to defend my mom.

For an ignorant child, hearing that activity can indeed be traumatic enough to make a kid want to defend their mom…

Sounds like you were a victim of child abuse if that's your reaction tbh

Nope. Child neglect, they neglected to teach me such things. Parents, school, friends, neighbors, all neglected to explain anything to me.

Hell, they didn’t even teach me that girls had different parts. I almost got expelled from school at age 7 because I walked into the wrong restroom. The school treated me like I was a pervert, when actually I was completely ignorant and innocent.

Bro where were you going to school that they were gonna expel you just for going into the wrong restroom as a SEVEN year old? I seriously doubt so much of this convo

I have no reason to lie, the school treated me like shit because I was an awkward kid, they thought I did it on purpose.

They also treated me like shit for failing their eye exam at age 7, which turned out to be the entire reason I was so awkward.

You know that big E on the top of the chart? Yeah, when they asked me to read the vision chart, I literally asked them “What chart, where?”

Rather than treat the situation seriously and inform my parents I was effectively blind and needed to get glasses ASAP, they accused me of ‘acting out’ because according to them I refused to read the chart.

Like fucking hell, I couldn’t even see the damn chart!

Yes, having 20/400 vision absolutely sucks!

Damn, that’s seriously crazy; I’m sorry you were put through that. That is no way too treat a child. I wish someone were there to stick up for you when you needed it.

Quick question, if you don’t mind, how old are you now?

I’m 42 now, and have had plenty of time to catch up from those awkward years.

My vision has gradually drifted even worse, to somewhere around 20/500, but at least prescription glasses (or occasionally contact lenses) correct my vision pretty damn close to 20/20.