Was never close to my mom, I live with her alone. I'd never tell her anything about my life because it was either uninteresting or embarassing. So she would resort to listening in on my phonecalls, voice calls on games etc. Then she'd ask me "who was that".
You'd think it's not a big deal, but it really got to me, like I really have this massive urge to hide anything and everything from my family. I've never told her any story, or about any of the friends I used to have when I was a child.
Now as an adult, I hate all phone calls, even if I know no one is in the vicinity, I feel as if someone is listening in and I don't like it when a phone call lasts longer than a minute.
I think this whole hide your life thing stems from my mom using my facebook profile when I was a kid. She would read all my messages, make artsy posts on my profile, even try to post pictures of me on it without my permission. She didn't want to use her own name and face, but she would get possessive over mine, it was pretty weird and almost creepy. In 4th grade I looked up this girl I had a crush on, my mom looked at my search and then joyfilly ran upstairs mockingly and repeatedly singing her name to me as if she was a toddler. Really bizzare, that made me not want to have crushes, and made them seem taboo.
I also think this impacted my social life as a kid, I didn't want my family to know who I was friends with, of what I was doing day to day, so I just would not hang out with anyone and would rot in my room as a result.
You'd think it's not a big deal, but it really got to me, like I really have this massive urge to hide anything and everything from my family. I've never told her any story, or about any of the friends I used to have when I was a child.
Now as an adult, I hate all phone calls, even if I know no one is in the vicinity, I feel as if someone is listening in and I don't like it when a phone call lasts longer than a minute.
I think this whole hide your life thing stems from my mom using my facebook profile when I was a kid. She would read all my messages, make artsy posts on my profile, even try to post pictures of me on it without my permission. She didn't want to use her own name and face, but she would get possessive over mine, it was pretty weird and almost creepy. In 4th grade I looked up this girl I had a crush on, my mom looked at my search and then joyfilly ran upstairs mockingly and repeatedly singing her name to me as if she was a toddler. Really bizzare, that made me not want to have crushes, and made them seem taboo.
I also think this impacted my social life as a kid, I didn't want my family to know who I was friends with, of what I was doing day to day, so I just would not hang out with anyone and would rot in my room as a result.
