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Someone commented that she was with her grandma and heard a story from another woman her grandmas age who had numerous abortions then went back to her job at a factory. The comment was like ‘and this was 30 years ago, it was even common way back then’ like that was shocking. Seriously I was thinking 30 years ago was 1996 not 1946. The way she said it was like it was soooo lonnggg ago she couldn’t believe it. Like this woman worked in a coal mine and barely had electricity. The timeline isn’t that different, you all wear the same stuff we did and young people were listening to music about sex and drugs like they do now and getting into trouble exactly the same.

This question probably comes with the caveats of it depends on your current relationship with your parents, if they accept you leaving or have left themselves. I watch Alyssa Grendel on YouTube and she seems to have a good relationship with her parents but I often wonder how she doesn’t carry some resentment for what they put her through. She seemed to suffer from extreme religious guilt from Mormon teachings.

I’m not a parent but I will alway remember this story my friend told me. My friend would smoke weed from blunts in front of her small child. She said one day they were in the car and she looked back at her daughter who was a few years old and the daughter was “smoking” a brown crayon (looks like a blunt). She said this was an eye opening moment for her and she felt like a degenerate.

I’ll go first- I usually went to very diverse schools but for 2 years of high school I was in a Catholic school with a lot of white kids and there were so many Jennifer’s! This was in the early 90s. Some of them had the same last initial so you couldn’t even call them Jennifer S. as there were like 3 Jennifer S’s.