What's one thing your parents don't know about you?

The illegal drugs I’ve taken.

I’m a better parent than they were. ^_^

The size of my penis especially when erect. Don’t go there!

There’s a lot they don’t know about me. For example… My father doesn’t know that I’m not a Catholic, and my mother doesn’t know that I don’t like bananas, despite the fact that I tell her this all the time. Every time she goes shopping, she buys lots of bananas and tries to make me eat them, somehow forgetting that I tell her every few days how foul bananas are.

Seek Kolnahr this is for you. sorry your parents were not to your expectations. you learned a valuable lesson to be a better parent and i commend you for this. when we are children, we have no control over our parents. if we have good parents, we are blessed.
John

Thanks, @john65pennington

@Seek_Kolinahr That’s got to be hard for you. My mom is always telling me I am such a better parent than she ever was! At least she can admit it!

How much i appreciate the things theyve done for me and how bad i feel sometimes for taking advantage of what opportunities and chances they gave me.

Both of my parents were deceased before I was diagnosed with Aspergers Syndrome (a form of high-functional autism). It would have explained to them that I was more than a juvrnile delinquent with an ultra-high IQ. By the time I was diagnosed (age 51) it was far too late for any treatment options to be effective. The condition cannot be cured but treated to a limited extent in children and teens. The only thing the diagnosis got me was a label, the realization that there were others like me out there and a medical retirement from the US Army when I “came out of the closet” six weeks ago.

My mom is dead, I think she knows everthing now

Hard to narrow down.

My mother is not aware of the depression I suffer from. My father knows nothing about me I met him once when I was 13, he doesn’t even know if I am alive or not, I guess in his case I keep everything from him.

My mother doesn’t know that I had sex with my ex boyfriend last week and that I’m probably going to do it again tonight!

Well, she probably suspects, but she doesn’t know for sure!

I’m an intelligent and responsible adult who does in fact deserve respect as a fellow human being.

My parents don’t know how much sex I’ve had, especially this past semester. Because there’s no one at school to date, they assume I’m celibate.

@sliceswiththings: Virtual high five.

@KatawaGrey Done. Have fun tonight:)

well, dad’s dead now so I guess nothing is off limits…when he was alive, he knew very little about me…all about my sexuality, gender identity, work for the LGFT and Intersex communities was kept from him because, apparently, he wouldn’t be able to ‘handle it’ emotionally…so my mother said…generally my mother knew everything about me throughout my life, she just never was supportive…and still isn’t really…but she has to admit that I have my shit together…though, of course, that she attributes to the great parenting they did…which I do not.

that I’m bisexual. They don’t know plenty of other things about me.

LGFT? wtf is that? I’m tired, I meant LGBT

@Simone_De_Beauvoir: I was wondering about that. Don’t worry, I think we’re all tired after the holiday season.

@KatawaGrey I haven’t slept in 5 nights

My parents don’t know that for a while, I was a poker dealer at a card club (that they’ve now forbade me to go) and that I lived out on my own, rented my own place for almost a year.

One thing??LOL!I need time to organize these “things” into files,folders,groups,and subgroups.Then there are the things that are so appalling that I have buried them deep beneath my angelic exterior.Slaps him with a steak for asking this question!I’ve never abused a steak,Mom and Dad

@lucillelucillelucille so the years of therapy wasn’t able to help you with your penchant to abuse medium well beef?

Nothing major. I’m a pretty open book, and a nice simple one (with pictures!) at that.

They don’t know about a girlfriend I had for a while (while I was still living at home).

It’s rare that I won’t abuse beef.I do it well.lol!

That I get really frustrated about having to explain my movements and actions to them. I lived away for three years, and now I am living with them again. Having to explain where I am going, and feeling unable to just decide to go out at 1am when the mood takes me incase they judge me for it and jump to the wrong conclusions is really , really, infuriating me. I keep quiet about it though – they are doing me a favour letting me live here rent free again!

All I could think of

@Simone_De_Beauvoir You too? Even the valium won’t knock me out right now. And when I do sleep it’s often 18+ hours at a stretch. Doc says the depression and breakdown have to work themselves out. I’m hearing a distinct “quack, quack, quack” here..

@stranger_in_a_strange_land well I haven’t slep because of the babies, not because of my mental issues…but so sad to hear you can’t sleep.

That my friends and I went to the Shaun Cassidy concert in 1978 without an adult chaperone.

For her own good and safety’ my mother never did know that I worked for the federal government as a Special Operative for over five years….

There are many things my parents don’t know about me. I was a smoker for 20 years, and now I’ve quit and I still haven’t told them.

that i’m a hard-atheistic and hard-determinist.

That I am no longer the same person I was when I was 15.

They don’t know how much I wish they had taken the time and effort to get to know my children while they were able to do so.

@Dr_Lawrence That is a toughie for sure!

My parents died without ever knowing that I do not believe in God.

@YARNLADY they know now!

I’m not a virgin anymore. And I leave college to spend weekends with my boyfriend.

@YARNLADY for many, that would not be a bad thing!

@dazedandconfused your parents know!! Trust me!! They/I were your age at one time too!!

@Cruiser They would have been upset if they had known, but it never came up.

The love my father gave me has made me a responsible and caring adult.