"keeping kids indoors hermetically sealed away from real dirt makes them sick. "

[Manifestor_of_Light]

25. My parents were crazy.

If I went outside to play with the neighbor kids, that was BAD. Mom called that "running off".

She and dad would sometimes run down the sidewalk shrieking my name, and holding a bamboo switch in their hands to hit me with for "running off". I felt like my brain was on fire from the stress of hiding from them. And laughing at mom's idiocy while hiding behind a house with a neighbor kid.

She wouldn't let me join the Girl Scouts. That was the only time I was around a group of girls where nobody picked on me because there was adult supervision.

I never had a birthday party. I never had another kid over to sleep over. I had to share a bedroom with my sister b/c mom had junked up one bedroom with her crapola. She was a hoarder. I can only watch the Hoarders show for about five minutes before I get flashbacks. We couldn't have birthday parties because the house wasn't clean. She would gripe at me for being lazy and not doing chores, but I couldn't throw any of her junk away. Like brown paper sacks and rotten boxes.

She was a jailer because she was strung out on heavy tranks like the housewives of the 60s. I guess the doctors were afraid they would start marching in the streets and demanding their rights. I'm not talking about valium; she took lots of that but also much heavier tranks that made her stoned. She stayed in bed weirded out a lot of the time.

She'd give me a Shirley Temple perm and wonder why I came home crying because the kids picked on me. She was a jailer. I don't think she wanted me to have friends. I was not supposed to dress like the other kids; that was bad.

In high school, Dad took me to a beauty operator who was one of his clients (he was an attorney). he tried to help me fit in. she gave me a Jane Fonda shag like she wore in the movie 'Klute' with Donald Sutherland. that was real hip in 1970. Mom got mad at him and thought it was just awful. She thought i was supposed to look like Shirley temple when I was little, and Joan Crawford when I was big.

I was 19 when I got a good haircut. I have beautiful, naturally curly hair I inherited from both parents and mom was too busy fucking with my hair when I was little to find that out.