How parental controls ruined my life growing up !!TW!! Mentions of @bu$3
Hi I’m 19f and live on my own now with my own devices but I would like to share my story.
When I was 13 I got my first phone and my mom immediately put controls on it. At first I didn’t think much of it because I was struggling with mental health so I would understand why. I started talking to my friends about my mental health and apparently my mom could read all my messages. She barged into my room one night screaming at me saying I had no reason to feel like I did, and to stop making her sound like a bad mom. It got to the point I couldn’t ask people for help or I would get yelled at. By the time I was 16 my phone was still locked at 8:30 pm. I was tired of not being able to talk about my problems and I felt stuck. I ended up getting a second phone and kept it hidden, made all new accounts for everything, etc. at 17 my mom found out that I had a second phone and she was so mad that she didn’t have control and hit me. When I fought back she called the cops saying I attacked her and I got arrested. In the state I live in you can’t be charged as an adult at 17. I was in jail for two months before my grandmother bailed me out because my mom wasn’t going to. I was in there with murders waiting to go to prison. Parental controls genuinely fucked up my life as the kid who had them on their phone.