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These 23 Kids Have The Most Overbearing Parents Imaginable

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I’ve had a friend since elementary school whose mom has always been super strict. We’re in our 20s now and in college, and her mom still “won’t let her” get her license. The worst part is my friend lets her mom continue to control her like this despite her being an adult. She’s at school with a full scholarship so it’s not like she depends on her for financial support.

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A girl came to a sleepover I was invited to when i was around 14 or 15. This girl had to call and ask her parents before we could watch ‘Mulan’. They said no, because it “glorified the occult”.

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My aunt didn’t let her children leave her sight, watch tv, make friends, and didn’t feed them anything but plain rice and chicken for years. there was a mandatory hour of ‘cuddle time’ with mom. they barely knew how to be human beings. the youngest was 8 and couldn’t dress herself since her mother did it every day for all three kids. She home schooled them too. only time they left the house was to go to the doctor or dentist. oldest left the house and immediately lost her fucking mind. she had no idea how to say ‘no’ and didn’t want to anyway since she was now ‘free’. got addicted to meth in less then a month and was dead in two from an overdose of meth and cocaine as well as alcohol poisoning. auntie sobered up instantly and handed the other two over to the dad before hanging herself in her back yard.

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From the time her daughter was 15, she would walk the girl to school, monitor her extracurricular activities obsessively, show up to every single practice or rehearsal. This woman had a part-time job that she quit, just so she could helicopter full-time. Eventually the girl got into a university on the other side of the country, and we all groaned when the mother bought a house less than five minutes from campus. A couple years ago, I learned that the girl had been diagnosed with schizophrenia when she was 15. It was an extremely severe case; the doctors claimed that she could never live a normal life – could never live alone, could never go to university, likely could never graduate high school. The mother took it upon herself to prove them wrong, and busted her ass making sure her daughter lived as full a life as possible.

Written by Alex Cogen

Alex is a New Yorker currently living in Austin. She loves cats, grass, and latex but unfortunately is allergic to all 3. She makes mom and dad jokes more than she cares to admit (jk she'll admit it loud and proud). She isn't as funny as she thinks she is. She is the founder of thelazygurl.com.