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A Boring Dystopia
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Dunno how I'd have gotten home from school or to soccer practice if I needed an adult, ffs I was staying alone overnight and cooking dinner for myself by 5th grade. How do you acquire independence and skills with someone hovering all the fucking time?
You don't.
Source: raised by a single parent who yelled and chased me out of the kitchen anytime I tried asking questions of what he was doing.
Now 41, and have NO CLUE how to cook.
Similar experience growing up here.
I taught myself every single adult skill in my early 20s. I couldn't have done it without the internet.
I'm a great cook though. I'll figure out how to wash clothes without ruining them next.
As my dad's friend would say, "Wash with colors only? Clothes are one color: laundry-colored!"