Gathering of the Figments

Shaye · Posted: Wed Apr 11, 2007 11:37 am Post subject: Family

Come here to post family troubles. Don't worry. Nobody is going to tell you off for having a dysfunctional family (and if they do they will get prodded with my mod stick). Plus, my family is more dysfunctional than a toaster that can't make toast, so...beat that.

It can be an argument you had with your parents/siblings or a problem with los abuelos y los tios y los primos. (That's grandpa and grandma and aunties and uncles and cousins).
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Hawkins · Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2007 4:20 am Post subject:

OMG SHAYE. Your avatar and signature changed and everything. I liked the 'IMAGINATION ROCKS" one. That was cool.

Man, my family doesn't even BEGIN to cover 'dysfuntional'. My stepdad constantly tells me he hates me, I haven't seen my dad (or brother or two sisters or stepmom) in like, forever, my mom demands I follow the cutural norms and dress normal...ACK!
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butterflii · Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2007 4:51 am Post subject:

Ahh normalness . . .BLEH! *spits*
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Hawkins · Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2007 5:15 am Post subject:

Normal=boring.
Mae=normal.

Although she can't be around people. She just...doesn't like people. Shocked

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butterflii · Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2007 5:31 am Post subject:

I'm not techinically a people. I was raised by loch ness monsters.
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Hawkins · Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2007 7:09 am Post subject:

Liar! I was too, and I never saw you there. ROFL
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butterflii · Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2007 8:21 am Post subject:

I was the kid with the frog on it's head.

DUH!
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pommie42 · Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2007 12:38 pm Post subject:

My family is fairly normal...
I developed a bit of bi-polarity from my dad, and as to where my eccentricity came from though I don't know...

But yeah, I am lucky to have a still intact direct family.
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Shaye · Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2007 2:28 pm Post subject:

Very fortunate indeed, Pommie.

I however have a dysfunctional family because of things like cancer...and autism...and clinical depression...and schizophrenia(sp?)...and eating disorders...and bad backs...and bad luck. Serious bad luck.

I don't have any of those, but if I'm not careful I'll get the bad back. Or an eating disorder.

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Hawkins · Posted: Mon Apr 16, 2007 4:21 pm Post subject:

I have like, all those things. It freaks Mae out when I start talking to myself. I'm not schizophrenic! But I do have acute paranoia. And aspergers. And a lack of sanity.

OH! I remember you now, butterfli! I thought you were just a rock. xD
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butterflii · Posted: Sat Jun 02, 2007 1:34 pm Post subject:

A rock! Aha, no, no 'twas me.

No family suffers from NO problems, there is always arguements or problems of some kind.

But what annoys me is how some families can be so selfish! When my little baby cousin died, because she was bit by a dog, her mum and dad got so stressed afterward (which is understandable) that they argued and split up. Taking one of thier remainging children each.

The LAST thing I would do if I lost a child was to split the whole family up. The children need a supportive, safe, loving family after the loss of thier sister not a traumatic hell-hole.

I mean, god knows what they were going through but surely they couldv'e stayed together for a while longer, just for the kids.

Our family has also suffered from Autism and Eating disorders. Along with Meningitus and several different kinds of abuse.

My family at the moment is SO in tatters and ruins that I actually prefer my mates to ANY of my family members, and am pretty sick of home life.
But all my family is, is arguements, secrets, fights and misery.
But hey, ho. Keeping my chin up.
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Hawkins · Posted: Sun Jun 03, 2007 9:00 am Post subject:

The day I moved out, Travis actually cornererd me at the end of the driveway, and said something along the lines of "Hawkins, I just want you to know, that as much I've told you I hate you, or that I'd like to see you move out, I really do appreciate you." And then he leaned in through the window and hugged me.

I wanted to drive away with him still hanging out the window, it was so awkward. What was even more awkward was probably seeing an El Camino dragging a VW down the road with two front tires missing. I didn't go back home for another three months, I was so afraid Travis was going to be all nice all of a sudden. Thanfully, he wasn't. He's still a pain in my ass. xD

Back to family illnesses and such...I've got about a 100% chance of some form of cancer...I forget which...I keep going to the doctors and saying, "is it there yet?" once I actually saw the doctor drop everything and run away. It was hilarious. I was coming in the door, and then his eyes got real big, and then he dropped this fat folder and ran down the hallway. He eventually came back, but it was still funny.
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marianas · The Scarlet Pimpernel Joined: 19 Feb 2007 Posts: 435

Family: where to begin...

My stepmom is bipolar but won't admit she has a problem. She's verbally abusive, can't hold down a job, and periodically kicks me and dad out of the house. And he lets her. Well, mostly. Last month he moved out, got a condo, and went full midlife crisis with the buying of unnecessary things (Wii, iPod Touch, instructional golf videos, etc.). My stepmom was thinking of moving back to California and getting a job there, but she didn't get the job she wanted (because she refuses to become an employee and contracting jobs are hard to come by). So dad's moving back. Or he did, this weekend. I'm going over there tonight. I'm fully expecting Cynthia to be really nice, because she is a lot, but I know that nothing really changed.

Is it sad that one of the reasons I'm looking forward to college the most is that I won't have to deal with family crap that really has nothing to do with me? I'm tired of my entire life beig able to fit into one track bag so I can pick up and move at a moment's notice. I wouldn't even mind living in my car or something as long as no family is there.
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Shaye · Posted: Tue Oct 02, 2007 1:44 pm Post subject:

I feel the same way.

My brothers are autistic, and I know it's horrible, but it's really really hard not to get mad at them.

College will be my freedom.
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Kidashka · Posted: Wed Oct 03, 2007 5:32 am Post subject:

Well......... technically I have ONE complete, proper blood relation who I can vaguely speak to. (i.e, my mum).

It's kinda odd. Having a whole step-family.... sometimes you don't feel completely part of everything. Even when people forget, it's still nagging away at the back of your mind, like, how do I even know you? If my mum hadn't married my 'dad' then I'd never have met you. Not that I ever knew bio-dad.... Confused

And there's all the fore-mentioned things, i.e, lack of sanity. But my family's probably more sane than most people's here. Smile

Oh yeah. WHO IS MAE??!! I've hear her name here and there, but i never actually know who she is.
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