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Started May 03, 2018 by Natalie

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YES

FYI Ribbing is a wild baby turtle i found in the woods

I started sobbing in the car, screaming "MY TREE'S NOOO!! I CAN'T LIVE IN THAT DESERT!"

I understand! We need trees to climb!

Man….don't move to South Dakota..

So like I am a slow eater and so is my sister. Is it abuse if they hit you VERY hard for doing that?

Wait your parents hit you for eating slow?!

Yeah……………

They also hit me for spilling things, being clumsy, and tripping…. also puking.

Oh my gosh I am so so so sorry! Like, repeatedly? They do it often?

What?!

Well I guess not Me because I think I got too old for it….. unless I have my own opinions and privicy and stuff. But my little sister gets it almost every day. I can't really stop it.

That is horrible. I’m pretty sure that that counts as that, yeah…

You can’t have your own opinions or anything?

I try to talk to them about it, but they shrug it off as discipline. They say they HAVE to do it because it's what their parents did. My culture is very abusive………..

Technically, If I have my own opinions, they yell at me about it…… and then theres the part where I'm not allowed to have privacy..

Should we stop talking about this then? I dont want you to get in trouble. I’m 13 btw so i dont know much about this stuff, just research I’ve done ;)

The description of my childhood.

No, they don't really go through this stuff.

Oh. Yeah I think that’s abuse then

Ok

Privacy like they can bang into my room whenever they want and stuff.

Well my parents do that too but they usually knock first

Nope, because apparently everything is "theirs" and Im not allowed to have a personal life.

Also the part where they don't except who I am. "Dad, I'm just a weird person.""No you're not, you're normal like everyone else."

Oh my gosh i am so sorry. I really don’t know what else to say…. have you told anyone irl?

Just a friend, but that's about it and don't be sorry, it's not your fault.

In other news, me and my mom just fought over silly string. She shot it all over me, now there's silly string in my hair and all over the couch. AND MY NEW GLASSES

Just a friend, but that's about it and don't be sorry, it's not your fault.

Maybe you should tell an adult? I don’t really know what to do.

You see thats the problem. Even though they are mean, sometimes they are actually nice and I don't know what to do. I mean they are the ONLY family I've had and I don't want to leave my sister or cousin.