• dohpaz42@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    I love how genx think shit like this is a flex. It’s not. It’s called child abuse.

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    3 months ago

    I love that boomers will post this and say everyone younger than them is weak, but then they will call the cops if there are kids outside having fun.

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    3 months ago

    That literally happened to me. Dad and uncle tossing little me between themselves in waist-high (to them) sea. One of them missed, and I slipped under and drifted away.

    It was years before I would go near any water. Eventually got over it, but… yeah.

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    3 months ago

    I got lessons as soon as feasible due to this. My grandpa did this to my mom and now even in her 60s she can’t go past her waist without visibly panicking.

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      3 months ago

      My dad did the same. I was 5 and it wss a 12ft deep pool. I chose to swim, I do wonder would he had jump in if I hadn’t dog paddle my way out of the pool. I think he let me drown. Its a traumatizing experience for a kid. They wonder why we are all fucked up and filled with anxiety. Shit like this didn’t help.

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    3 months ago

    My parents are from the 60s (early gen x)…and they took me to swimming lessons. Like sane adults.

    The more people I meet, the more I realize that I’m lucky to have my parents.