Black people recount the hilarious ways their parents psychologically tortured them as kids.

https://twitter.com/4PF_Rami/status/1575042115029303296

My father often called me an illegal immigrant from Nigeria, he’d threaten to tell the police to have me deported if I didn’t follow his orders.


when i was 6 my mom started pretending to be dead when i came back from school and she’d go the whole way bc she’d hold her breath when I tried to test and id tickle her and hit her and she continued pretending for a full hour while i mourned her


had a mate, her and her husband used to lie on the floor covered in tomato sauce when their 3 kids came home from school, they thought it was hysterical! All the kids are grown up now and all have serious problems!


My dad told me it was too expensive to get me a birth certificate so they registered me at the pound. My dad also said that when he spanked me he wouldn't get in as much trouble because I'm a dog


My dad used to tell me I wasn’t dark enough to actually be his and he was just doing the mailman a favor 😂😂😂

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boomers rock

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The best prank on a child I ever heard of was an Iranian-American girl who was told around age 10 that her family had arranged to have her betrothed to a boy back in the old country. I wish I could have been there to see the look on her face. :marseylaugh:

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Loool brutal and soul crushing but if that doesn't build character then nothing will.

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My pops used to tell me I had hair on my arms because I was part chimp. He’d play monkey sounds off his phone and tell me it was a voicemail from my real father. No one can ever look me in the eyes and tell me they understand what I’ve been through

:#rofl:

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Other than pretending to be dead these are hilarious. The acting dead prank is cruel and could really cause problems.

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My dad did that once but pretended he was being electrocuted. I freaked out, started looking for a broom to get him away from the outlet and the mother fricker just breaks out laughing.

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All of them are hilarious lol. When did dramabussies become so sensitive?

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That first one sounds funny af

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My parents used to get hammered and tie me and my sister (voluntarily) to chairs to see who could get out quicker. Those were good times.

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parents of rdrama: when are these jokes too far? How do I not frick up my kid?

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Teach your kid how to safely do pranks as well. Then they'll understand it's not so serious. Also never do a prank or joke that pokes at their insecurity if they have one.

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By not reproducing. It's the only way.

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Talk to them when they need help, force them to participate in family gatherings once a year minimum. Change how you interact with your kid over the years from a strict control state to a constantly loosening hand as they figure out more and more stuff on their own. Encourage them to learn problem solving habits. Help them out if they get stuck but also require that they learn from where they got stuck. Have specific standards that you do not break.

I think the most common element for being a shit parent is to not have strict standards for how you would react. Many parents get too busy trying to trick their own kids to get the wanted results and just end up with kids that do not trust them at all.

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It doesn't matter how perfect you are, if ur kid ends up like one of those self hating cute twinks on reddit/rbn/whatever they're going to find something u did to blame their """""trauma""""" on

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:quote: my parents were always there for me. they always made sure i had clothes and food and a bit of money in my pocket. they always helped me with my homework and we had dinner together as a family every night. THEY FORCED THEIR WHITE PRIVILEGE AND WHITE SUPREMACY ON ME AND AS AN ADULT I CAN LOOK BACK AND SEE HOW FRICKED UP ALL THIS WAS!!!! :quote:

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ugh they were grooming me into being a successful member of society with a wife and kids how fricking awful of them!!! Maybe I wanted to be a degenerate living in a rented apt with a roommate at 32 and spending all my time and money trying to find new ways to press the dopamine button in my brain!!!

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It's actually pretty obvious. Just be normal. Little jokes and pranking your kid can be fine but don't pretend you've been killed as a prank. This isn't fine.

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Not fricking up your kid is white culture sweetie

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these all sound like my dad, what kind of weird butt parents do you guys have???

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My parents are great people

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my parents died before i was born

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A totally normal loving family. It was great.

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frick

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>A totally normal loving family

>Still ends up a dramatard

You never had a chance

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Yeah don't think i can blame them sadly.

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It must suck knowing that, no matter how good your parenting is, 50% of the work has been done by genetics

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I feel that nature provides your maximum potential and nurture is what takes you there.

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Sometimes as much as 80%. But I think it would feel good knowing I can't possibly screw it up that badly.

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:#marseyxdoubt:

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t. Actual Schizophrenic

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ya what about it?

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voicemail from my real father

Nah pops is just recovering from the :marseyl: he took. :marseycuck:

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Well your dad is a drug addict so I wouldn't be so quick to judge other people's recoveries.

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Ohhhhhhhhhhh

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The sound you're making is really annoying. Please stop.

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moans softly

nibbles ur ear

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What are you, some kind of sicko? Keep your hands to yourself, creep.

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niggle me this, batman - i'm loud and obnoxious, i like music that rhymes, 13 percent of the population, but commit half the crimes. who am i???

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You are an embarrassment to society.

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@HeyMoon hold this L

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why are you so BIPOCphobic?

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burgers are strange. On one hand their kids take absolutely no responsibility for their lives, are incredibly sheltered, pampered, and their schools are so PC. On the other hand, regularly beating your kids is seen as normal life.

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It's not the same people

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It’s the same woke army vs Russia men debate. All the successful kids come from coddled homes, but burgers’ crime rate has to come from somewhere

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Beating your kids definitely isn't seen as normal in most communities. I'd guess only about 13% of Americans see that as ok.

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that is still 13 % that would have their kids removed immediately though

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Latinx too

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I know this is supposed to be some sort of race bait but I'm pretty certain the majority of Americans support physically harming your children as a form of punishment. I don't and I'm always either alone or in the tiny minority with that opinion.

Not just an American thing either, in fact I bet support for this is higher in most other countries.

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im southern white trash and my mom punched me once when i was 16 but deserved it fa sho, getting hit with a switch and all that died in the mid 20th century except for certain uhhhh demographics

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I mean my cousins are white and still got hit with a belt as punishment.

My parents on the other hand never physically hit me for any reason, ever. Of course I also didn't do anything even remotely worthy of it.

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Phrasing of survey questions can be incredibly tricky, this is such a case, minute differences in phrasing will get widely different results. "Is it ever OK to use corporal punishment on a child" is likely to get a majority yes (especially if clarified to include scenarios that people are likely to agree with) but after that the degrees that people find it acceptable will vary wildly. Some people (BIPOCS) will find it as the only method of disciplining. Some people would only utilize it in scenarios where the behavior is egregious, and the child is incapable of being receptive of other methods of discipline.

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I remember having a class discussion about this in high school. All the white kids thought it was weird and all the black/latinks kids thought it was normal to get hit with belts or whatever. This was the suburban Midwest, in a liberal but not woke community.

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I'm a Midwest ruralcel and can't think of a single person that supports corporal punishment, or at least would admit to it. I've gotten the impression that it's more acceptable in the south for sure. But claiming it's more acceptable in the US than the rest if the world is fricking dumb.

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Southern. Spanking is a necessity and you're a braindead moron if you don't do it or you continue after they are 6/7.

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Well it's legal in the US in all 50 states and it's not legal in some other countries (like G*rmany). But it's also clearly common. Most children in the US report being physically punished as a child so even if parents talk about "oh we would never do that" they're lying.

I've gotten the impression that it's more acceptable in the south for sure.

This is absolutely true, and makes intuitive sense as well.

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Maybe a generation or two ago, but even spanning has fallen out of favor and we are worse for it.

We need nuns smacking kids with rulers

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I think spanking your children for misbehaving is still widely seem as acceptable.

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It’s acceptable in the sense that you can do it without getting CPS called on you like a switch will but increasingly taboo, just Google spanking and you’ll get a million “it doesn’t work think”pieces.

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I'm sure if you simply survey thinktank slop you'll get that result, but that's not the same as what the general public feels.

I tried finding some surveys and got a pretty wide gamut of results, probably due to either sampling or phrasing differences.

https://www.brookings.edu/research/hitting-kids-american-parenting-and-physical-punishment/

More than 70% of Americans agreed in 2012 that, “it is sometimes necessary to discipline a child with a good, hard spanking.”

Another survey put it at 42%, but I think that was some kind of internet poll so probably had a sizable sampling error. And, either way, the majority of Americans were physically punished as a child, even in the 17-and-under age bracket, so clearly it's still pretty commonplace.

Like obviously doctors and stuff are against it because it's obviously wrong and ineffective, but most people don't actually give a shit about doctor recommendations.

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The 13.5% who showers with a family hand cloth.

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Two paradigms that are both true

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This sounds so flavorful and diverse.

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🦧oo oo Oo oo ah ah ah oo ah

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Them coloured folks can be mighty entertaining sometimes :marseysoutherner:

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These are the lucky :marseyblack: that at least had a father

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They always start out with one when they are kids. They just don’t stick around for the important part when they are teenagers and start getting some T

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At least they had present fathers

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A dramatard once said something along the lines of "someone could get r*ped and murdered and Black twitter will be like 'lmfaoooo 😭😭☠☠💀' lol" and I think about that a lot

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black twitter reportmaxxes each other for doing exactly that

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:marseyblack: moment

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Black people really are the best

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We don't deserve them.

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