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My parents encouraged me to go outside but I didn't want to

>>3310 I wish I had your childhood. Because the only thing different about mine was that i didn't have a computer.

>>3310 >>3312 i'm similar to you two. my mom never really let me hang out with friends outside of school, she always had some excuse as to why i couldn't have friends over or why i couldn't stay over with the few friends i had. my 14th birthday (or my 15th? i'm beginning to lose track) in particular is something i remember being genuinely painful, because literally all i wanted was to invite some friends from school over and my mom did just about everything in her power to stop that from happening, and then when my birthday rolled around, she spent the entire day blaming me for not wanting to do anything that day. i didn't get my first laptop until 2017, but i had a smartphone. it's not like i was texting or calling people super often, though. funnily enough, because i was overweight as a kid, my mom would tell me to go outside a lot, but i didn't really have any outside stuff, like a bike or anything, so i guess she just expected me to go outside and walk around the neighborhood for an hour a day...? i did go over to a friend's sleepover on his birthday one year, and it might be one of my most treasured memories, i still think back on it a lot because i had a lot of fun playing video games with everyone there, and now it seems like something i'll never be able to experience again.

At first, my parents let me play outside. But as we were getting older, they noticed that the people outside were getting into doing stupid things, and they decided they were a bad influence and kind of prohibited me from playing outside. I still had a friend I could visit, but I guess that unlike most anons here I didn't care at all about it. As long as I had a single friend I was more than satisfied. A few years later my parents started trying to encourage me to go out, but I didn't want to. I started to legitimately hate spending time outside home except for school. Eventually I tried to rile up my friends to do more things together outside of school, but they were even less prone to going out, so we just met two or three times a year. I had exactly one friend that liked going out though, and for two years I did meet him many times, even going to his house multiple times in a week. I did use my computer a lot and prefer it to leaving my house, but I never liked to talk to people in the internet, except for real life friends. I had internet access from basically the first days when it was more widely available, but that left me scared of the internet. Discovering anonymous imageboards has been great because it's the only place in the internet where I can talk to people without being anxious.

I did go outside a bit when I was younger, but the kids in the neighborhood would always pull some shit on me because I was the youngest out of them. So I got bullied a lot by them, and eventually they told my parents that I supposedly broke into their home as a joke, which I got into huge trouble for. I wasn't allowed to go out and play in the neighborhood again Something funny is that this happened around 20 years ago and I still live in the same home. I wonder if some of them still live in this area...

>>3315 That sounds bad, I'm sorry

Not really, my parents didn't really care where I went outside. As long I didn't put myself in danger or got into trouble, which I was smart enough to do.

Yes.

>>3326 My parents became more like that as I got older, but were very strict when I was younger. I think that's how most parents should be...

never, when i was young i could go outside whenever aslong as im not selling drugs lol.

not at all, my parents wanted me to go outside and do something when i got a computer i started refusing my friends invitations to go outside and played videogames all day instead

I used to not think so,or at least that I was middle of the road, but in adulthood I've learned I definitely was. My parents closely paid attention to who I hung out with, and would melt down over 30 minutes of me being unaccounted for up until I was like 16. So I of course ended up a very inside person. Luckily, we have a good relationship, and I would say I didn't turn out to be a total social reject despite this upbringing.