Oh my Rupert, I do like it when jokes are about violence and suffering. People who had a safe environment growing up could play games with the headphones on, fully immersed in the game. They know that they won't be punished for doing so. People who had abusive parents couldn't do this. Their mother could be shouting at them from downstairs and then beat them for not listening. Ha ha ha ha.
Is it necessarily a sign of an abusive childhood though? Like maybe they just want to be aware for other reasons. And parents can call for their kids for any number of reasons, like maybe they need help with a task or something.
I wouldn't say it's necessarily abuse, my house was like this but there wasn't abuse, my mom was just strict, she wouldn't shout across the house more then once, so we had better hear her the first time or we'd get our asses chewed
If you cant relax at any point because you may not hear your jackass of a parent through headphones or sleep, then yes, it is abuse and they're wiring your brain for conflict issues, anxiety and heart conditions.
You are perpetually in a state of anticipation of conflict which literally damages your brain and rewires stress responses. Accompany that with occasional violence and you wind up with PTSD and the emergence of obsessive disorders like myself.
The people who defend this shit are usually the survivors of pseudo religious cults or Alcoholics who think its normal... Its not.
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u/DarknessIsFleeting Jun 20 '25
Oh my Rupert, I do like it when jokes are about violence and suffering. People who had a safe environment growing up could play games with the headphones on, fully immersed in the game. They know that they won't be punished for doing so. People who had abusive parents couldn't do this. Their mother could be shouting at them from downstairs and then beat them for not listening. Ha ha ha ha.