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🗓️ 19 February 2024
⏱️ 22 minutes
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0:00.0 | What's the worst case of helicopter parents that you've ever seen? I had a friend in middle or high |
0:06.8 | school who was a Chinese girl adopted by an old white couple who were super weird and overprotective. |
0:12.6 | Some of the things I remember about her parents, mom volunteered at whatever school you were at |
0:17.2 | and would sit with us at lunch to make sure her daughter was eating. They drove a minivan |
0:21.9 | and made her sit in a car seat in the very back row until like freshman year of high school. |
0:27.5 | Anytime someone praised them for raising such a good daughter, they would laugh and say, |
0:32.1 | She's not our daughter. She's adopted. They wouldn't let her ride the school bus, |
0:36.5 | join any clubs, or hang out with anyone after school. |
0:39.6 | When she got her driver's license, the dad brought light sticks, like air traffic controller sticks. |
0:44.7 | Anytime she left the house, he would stand in the street with his light sticks and blocked traffic |
0:49.5 | so that people wouldn't hit her as she backed out of the driveway. It was hilarious to watch, |
0:54.5 | but she was completely mortified. This one broke my heart. My little brother is adopted, and I've |
0:59.7 | lost my crap at people who've tried to say he's not my brother. I can't imagine ever feeling |
1:04.7 | or thinking that way myself. That poor girl, people like that have no place adopting. The |
1:10.0 | light sticks bit is hilarious, though. |
1:13.4 | I had a friend growing up whose mother was very protective. |
1:16.4 | The father, not so much, but she was so bad that my parents called her Mama Hawk. |
1:21.2 | I invited him to my 10th birthday party, which was at a laser tag place. |
1:25.3 | His mum came, which was fine. |
1:27.3 | But then while we were playing |
1:28.3 | laser tag, she stood with him the whole time. Didn't play, just stayed by him. Really? What was she |
1:34.1 | protecting him from? He turned out surprisingly normal and now lives a thousand plus miles away from her. |
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