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ORSOrama
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Italian, gay, brain surgery survivor, boring




ArtemisLives reply
The same thing my wife and I do every year. Order tasty pizza and drink good beer. Why do we need a single day out of the year to express our love for each other? That should be every day...

No-Caterpillar6354 reply
Spaghetti. As a kid growing up my dad cooked it at home and never bothered to drain the water off the noodles, so a plate-full of noodles floating in water plus his home-made sauce was just awful. When spahetti was served at school for lunch it wasn't much better. Now as an adult I've found good spaghetti and love it.

anon reply
I thought being mortally terrified of physical harm from your father was just how fathers are... turns out mine's just... not so great.

SwiftieNewRomantics reply
We used to go into mcdonalds and our father would tell us all the stuff people left on the trays when they left was free food and we f*****g went to town on it. I was 15 years old when I found out that wasn't normal.

br0itskatie reply
When I turn my head too fast, I'll get a sharp pain on one side of my neck, my tongue will go numb, and my vision will go black on that side for a few seconds. I tried to ask my dad about it as a kid (he's a nurse, so I thought he might know why it did that) but I only had the vocabulary to describe it as "my neck hurts when I turn my head too fast" to which he responded "well, don't do that then." From then, I brushed it off as normal because he didn't seem terribly concerned.
Fast forward around 15 years, and I'm hanging out with friends in college and accidentally turn my head too quickly. I make a noise/face/something to indicate that I'm in pain, come to, and complain about how I hate when that happens. My friends are clearly confused as to what just happened, so I try to explain. "You know when you turn your head too fast and your tongue goes numb and stuff?" I was met with blank stares until someone eventually tells me that no, they don't know, that's not normal.
I'm still not *entirely* sure what causes it, but it sounds an awful lot like Neck-Tongue Syndrome.

KissedByFire2194 reply
I am adopted. From a young age, my parents were extremely open with me about the fact that I am adopted. So open, in fact, that I just started assuming that all kids must be adopted. My parents would always tell me the story about the day that they picked me up from the group children's home I had been staying at and I was officially theirs. I assumed that's where all babies come from... that their parents just go to a hospital/ children's home/cradle and pick them up, and viola! You have a kid. I was in for such a shock when I was 6 and one of my best friend's moms got pregnant and my mom had to explain to me how some parents have their kids biologically.

anon reply
Insanity. Like, shrieking full bore f*****g insane ranting insanity. Just all the time. I remember when I figured out that other people didn’t have that in their houses.

Kitcat1987 reply
My family are not comfortable around each other. Never any touching, kissing or cuddling. Any physical contact is forced and horribly awkward. No one also talks and any disagreements simmer for years with a grudging resentment.
When I first starting dating my now husband I was shocked his family would just sit close to each other, like their legs would touch on the couch. Like not overly touchy, just normal, but not normal to me. They also spoke to each other if they were upset. I was quite envious.

2baverage reply
Instead of starting my second year of college, I decided to drain my bank account to buy my (now ex) fiance a car. He swore he'd pay me back and that he only needed my money so he could buy the car before it was bought by someone else.
I was only ever paid back $200, our relationship ended a few months after the car was purchased, I nearly ended up homeless, I had to put off college for a few years, and I ended up having to get a restraining order against him. It's been nearly 17 years and I still regret every second of that whole relationship. Don't ever let relationships sabotage your security and independence...and don't be stupid with your money.










Letters_to_Dionysus reply
"when someone tells you they love you dont take it at face value, look at how they act and use that to judge" said shortly before proving he didnt love me ahaha.

hellogooday92 reply
My parents do not take care of themselves or their house and don’t hold themselves accountable for…..anything. They are only getting worse with age. And I can’t even bring up with my mom how she has negatively impacted me. All she does is cry and say “you just had the WORST childhood didn’t you!?”.
My dad just had a heart attack and had to get a valve replaced but still drinks a s**t ton of Carlo Rossi sangria because it’s the color red and he thinks red wine is good for your heart. 🤦♀️…..so yes I have no respect for them. Do I love them and try to accept that they did the best they could?? Yes. I’m honestly the most patient with them out of me and my brothers. Do I visit often? No. And I feel very very guilty about it.

robinson217 reply
My parents are peak boomers, and honestly, pretty aware of how good they had it. I've made sure they understand how things are different for our generation and possibly even worse for the younger generations coming up. If you ever want to talk to your parents about how stuff is different, do what I did. Look up the current rental price of your parents first apartment. Then look up the current wage for the job they had at the time.
I'm not mad that boomers had it good. I just want to make sure they understand that pulling on bootstraps doesn't fix the housing crisis and cost of living.

TheViking1991 reply
Cut all contact with my mother about a year ago.
I have two kids of my own now, one is 6yo and the other is 6 months old.
I hadn't put much thought into the way my mother treated me as a kid, until I had kids myself. Now, I look into my sons eyes and think about how much they mean to me... And then wonder how the hell she could have ever treated me that way.
It all came flooding back and I just couldn't maintain the relationship.

Electronic_Map5978 reply
Everything bad they ever said about us was projection about them. The older I get I'm like you spoiled entitled old mfers.

EscherichiAntisColi reply
They are like teens now, anti vaccines, don’t believe in doctors, fights everything that moves, stop talking to you for the stupidest reasons… it started around their 50’s and its rapidly getting worse.. so yeah.

Anteater_Reasonable reply
Buying new things. I loved spending money on shiny new s**t when I was younger and now I just want things that are functional and will last a long time.

MaleficentYellow8134 reply
Arguing with strangers online, now if i see something i feel is ignorant i just mute the post, scroll past or unfriend the person who posted it. our social media experience is really what we make it and i cant believe i spent so many years yelling at people in comment sections.

