When Adults Are Not Taking Kids Seriously

worst part of being a kid was not having adults take you seriously when you knew what you were talking about what is an example of this that happened to you as a child i once bought a game and when i opened it outside the shop it had no disc in it i went back and they didn't believe me so i argued with them for at least 30 minutes before they tried to kick me out saying i was scamming them after about an hour they kept telling me to leave and get out of the way and trying to then ignore me in total i got m to check the cctv and the manager hadn't put the disc in the case they were separate to stop thieves without a word he got a copy and threw it at me and stormed off complained about stomachaches every morning for a week and my parents thought i just wanted to skip school the next weekend they wanted to set me straight so i was taken to the doctor turned out i had hepatitis a one of my best friends committed for over a year and the doctors told him he was faking it's anxiety it's attention seeking massive brain cancer tried to tell them my knee was bothering me was told it's just growing pains finally going about two years later got a scope done and doc says man if we wouldn't have caught this earlier we could have avoided the surgery i had a birthmark that was displaying all the classic signs of skin cancer but every time i tried telling my mum about the concerning symptoms she brushed me off she didn't even look eventually after three four weeks i was taken to see a doctor and the situation then escalated very quickly long story short i ended up having a cancerous tumor the size of an orange removed from the area below my birthmark the doctor had many stern words with my mother after that and i was monitored for a while not really as a child but when i was 14 i had severe side pain from a kidney stone and my parents didn't take my pain seriously until after a few days and by that time i was literally on my knees begging them to take me to the air if your kid starts begging you to take them to the air please listen to them i begged my parents that we stop in paris as we drove back to the uk from our holiday and whilst we were there we visited the eiffel tower we parked nearby and from the top i could see our car being towed i told my parents but they wouldn't listen they thought i was joking and being young i assumed their response meant it wasn't a big deal luckily our car was some 4x4 thing not good with the breeds of cars so the towing guys were still trying to move it they told us to get out of the city asap as it was about to be locked down later in life i discovered on that day there was an assassination attempt on the french president i remember being into space as a kid and telling my mum's drug addict boyfriend that the son is a star dumpsy refused to believe i was right [ __ ] face the sun is a star everyone knows that when i was in middle school i needed glasses because i couldn't see the board i told my parents they said i was looking for attention i brought binoculars to school so i could see they didn't take me to an optometrist until the school nurse did rudimentary eye exams on every student in the school and wrote my parents that i needed glasses same thing happened with braces my dentist had been hinting for years that i needed braces and they didn't take me to an orthodontist until he wrote a referral to one who was just down the street i had had crooked teeth and an entire adult set for years at that point my sister faked bad eyesight when she was young because of which they believed i was lying as well it was only after every single teacher of mine said her child is blind after they got my eyes tested i've been wearing glasses for 10 plus years now and i can't see crap without them in kindergarten we had different skills to learn and after learning each one there was a poster that we got to write our name on if we learned the skill these were things like being able to tie our shoes or butting a shirt one was for if we knew our own birthday there was a mix-up and the teacher had my birthday written down for a different month i knew my correct birthday but was told i was wrong even after it was proven that i knew my birthday i still didn't get to put my name on the poster same but it happened with the spelling of my own name begged my parents to not send me to school as i wasn't feeling well it was photo day so understandably they sent me because they thought i was lying to get out of it got the photos back and can see the chicken pox around my neck that's kind of wild to me i don't remember feeling at all ill from chickenpox just incredibly itchy in the sixth grade i fell on my roller skates i was sure i'd broken my wrist but my mother a radiologist technician the woman literally takes rays of broken bones for a living told me i was just faking it for attention a week later and it was still swollen i couldn't write correctly and my pay teacher wasn't letting me participate and he sent home a note that finally prompted my mother to take me into the doctor come to find out i definitely had broken my wrist and was in a cast for eight weeks felt sick as heck but forced to go to school ended up throwing up and having severe food poisoning for the next few days those were some bad nights it became a boy who cried wolf scenario for me i would regularly try to fake being sick to get the day off from school and when i actually had a bad case of the shoots they wouldn't budge and i ended up spending half my school day in the nurse's room running between the bed and the toilet my grandparents went to australia for a year whilst they were gone my mother was asked to drop by to check on their house but would often just wait in the car and have me go in one time i noticed that the next door neighbors who were building an extension had taken down the dividing fence and put scaffolding into my grandparents garden i told my mother who brushed it off as imagination the next time they'd fully started to build on my grandparents land destroying my grandfather's prized rhubarb patch i told my mother and same thing happened by the time my grandparents came home the extension was fully built and had been for months my grandma was so annoyed at my mother for not doing anything to stop this but i think they were so kind they didn't do anything about it and the neighbors got away with it dang shame if someone accidentally lit that extension on fire dang shame and to think the owners are in australia kindergarten needed to pee teacher no you don't teacher five minutes later struggling to peel off my pee soaked stockings also kindergarten needed to throw up teacher no you don't immediate result bright orange vomit on christmas green carpet to this day i find the obsession with preventing kids from going to the bathroom at school really freaked up i'd always hoped it would make sense to me when i got older but it doesn't it's just messed up pretty sure i have mild territors head and neck jerks at absolutely random times and it's gotten progressively worse parents decide to mock me on it and apparently if i concentrate enough i'll be able to control it it's been two years now and i still haven't gotten a diagnosis yet i come from a family of doctors that mock you for getting sick or just in general having any medical issue could be an essential tremor i've been looking into it recently and it sounds like what i've been dealing with too i told my mom when my dad was abusing me and she didn't believe me or didn't want to and since that was exactly what he had said would happen if i told i never tried again then when i told her again in my 20s after i cast him out of my life she asked me over and over if i was sure and didn't stop until her constant asking caused the worst panic attack i've ever had in my life thank you to the couple of people who will read this comment it feels nice to know that somebody knows and hopefully somebody believes me i have always loved reading and i loved to apply what i'd learnt about writing techniques spelling and grammar to my schoolwork we had a substitute teacher for a while in primary school who wants red penned marked as wrong my work for using the punctuation combo and the word accumulative she also didn't believe me when i wrote about fox gloves being poisonous to many animals and wasn't interested in seeing the botanical book that proved it ignorant much i'd love to see what she shares on facebook okay not really i was maybe four or five years old and my mum took me with her to run errands we ended up at the mechanic where my mum was getting her car repaired she places me on the counter i tell my mum i don't feel well mum she ignores me i tell her again mum i don't feel very well she waves me off disregards me and takes out her credit card to pay i pipe up once again mum i don't fee i throw up on the counter child vomit all over the counter the clerk turns to my mum and says oh is she not well today as my poor mother picks up a dripping credit card number i don't think she is replies my mum still processing what just happened a fun mixture of disgusting surprise on her face power to her she never disregarded me or ignored me ever again after that when i told her i felt sick so there's that at least that my parents were abusive all their friends thought they were just normal people it wasn't until my mom had a mental breakdown from me moving away and cutting contact because she couldn't control me anymore that people started to realize that maybe they were a bit abusive still to this day i get a few oh they weren't that bad or they did it because they love you from random people who had good childhoods and couldn't even possibly wrap their narrow bone headed minds around the fact that a parent of anyone can be abusive i would constantly feel sick after every breakfast and lunch at school my stomach would hurt so badly and i would have to go to the bathroom i just knew something was off i told my mom and asked to go to the doctor and she said it's fine it's just anxiety i lost 12 pounds and found out at my annual physical for school that i have celiac disease and my small intestine was just destroyed i tried using a second hand reclining chair we just got and it collapsed around me i was still small enough to get wedged in the pieces called out for help as i was stuck in the chair and all i got was if you want to talk to me come here and speak properly spent an hour in a chair fun my mom was convinced earthworms were the same as parasitic worms and called me a rude smart butt when i tried to explain that the earthworm i was holding was not gonna burrow under my skin i tried explaining to my mother that not all snakes especially the ones at zoo are not poisonous and they do not want to kill everything it sees but she still fears them and calls me smart butt when i was five or six i was looking down on the balcony when i felt wind on my left ear and saw a solid freaking red brick falling and then crashing on the floor to dozens of pieces i immediately look up and saw my neighbor with his brother 15 yo at that time laughing there off when i told my parents they laughed and told me that i watched too much cartoon they still don't believe me 25 years later your neighbor's brother is a dong growing up i noticed i couldn't hear properly became more apparent when my mom was hoovering up and i only needed to cover one ear parents didn't believe me teachers didn't believe me they just said i wasn't listening i was in high school when my parents realized there might be a problem the doctor said it was common for kids to fake it for attention and my parents could try clearing my ears out another two years before a doctor did a full check and found that i was completely deaf in one ear and mostly deaf in the other with likelihood of going fully deaf and they cannot find the actual cause it's essentially a natural degradation of my ability to hear and it's likely genetics since my gran on my mother's side also had it starting with the left ear same as me my mum on the other hand has a degradation of sight starting in her left eye and apparently she was just terrified of me being deaf because it would be her fault grade two teacher initially refused to let me do a diorama on the epoch for an animal project because she didn't realize it was an actual animal took me bringing in a printed article on it to convince her to let me do it to be fair to her though i didn't use its more well-known name of the water at possum to be more fair i've still never heard of it tried to tell my mum that she was in a horribly abusive relationship it had been 80 years by that point they would regularly fight and she'd take me round to my grands her mother for a few days she'd always say this time i won't go back and i'd say yes you will i was miserable and i never gave up trying to tell her to leave she told me that because i was only a teenager my brain was still developing in that i was literally incapable of empathy i had never known love i would understand when i was older anyways now i'm nearly 30 and i haven't spoken to her in years my siblings had built a wildly coyote ladder of random stuff from our backyard to get to the roof so they could jump from the roof onto our trampoline i asked if i could do it but being like six they said no that i would get hurt and because i was six i decided this was grounds to tattle i went straight inside and told our parents exactly what was going on and it was so ridiculous that not only did they know believe me they didn't even bother checking they wouldn't find out for another seven years when i brought it up again as a fun memory during dinner let me guess when your parents finally did check the ladder had already disappeared because of an evil scientist which was intended to help take over the tree state area my family was the i went to school no matter how sick i was so you will two types but they were also the we can't take time off or we might get fired and it's illegal to leave you at home types which also goes hand in hand with the prescription medicine is expensive and if you don't go to the hospital you'll get better and save us some money types i don't know what the heck i had did i think it was some kind of lung infection bronchitis or something no idea i think i did end up getting some pills over the weekend so i wouldn't have to stay home on monday the school wasn't happy lol in seventh grade we had to do a report on the revolutionary war and include different items one was a poem that i had fun writing and the teacher liked it and read it to the class when we were doing research in the library afterwards the librarian came up to me and said tell your dad it was a good poem with a tone that implied he thought my dad wrote it for me another teacher didn't believe me and pay running laps that out of shape me couldn't breathe she told me to keep going i tried but ended up hyperventilating and twisted my ankle she finally let me sit down the librarian portion makes my blood boil what a miserable butthole one time i was like 13 and i spent an entire afternoon cleaning a pool for a pool party a family friend was having when im just finishing up some random guy shows up and says oh look at the kids having fun and pretending they're being helpful i'm 29 and still salty about it honestly i would be too i've got to master in electrical engineering my parents until recently refused to let me fix things a professional should do it like wtf did you spend all that money on my education for i was home sitting for two weeks and when they returned i had repaired several things that were bothering me i tend to stay there a lot my mother was genuinely impressed with something she should have known to be true for more than 10 years now she actually asks me to fix stuff same with computers here although mostly my grandparents that still don't trust me after seven years of computer science they also still try to understand virtually every button i press so the one time i did help them it took hours of explaining my mom never believed me when i said we shouldn't water our indoor plants every day especially not in winter three pots of dead plants later she might have started to come around but i kinda hated her a little more by then begging my parents for help with my mental health at age 12 i knew i had anxiety and depression i told my parents and they shrugged it off it took a suicide attempt for them to realize it wasn't anything they could ignore i had the same experience and my mom's response was i can't deal with this right now in a condescending way fast forward 11 years and i'm good now i made two attempts in that time span but i still haven't forgotten about that it sucks to not be listened to when you need it most in primary school we had a quiz year five versus year six i was in year six age ten one question asked was which was the first motorway built in the uk my older brother had told me this bit of trivia only a few weeks prior so i raise my hand immediately and say the m6 i was told i was wrong and then year five answered with the m1 and was told they were correct i was initially confused thinking my brother who always knew random trivia and was never wrong about things like this must have got it wrong or told me wrong i protested but to no avail and my classmates mocked me for getting the question wrong i went home that day and asked my brother who confirmed that it was the m6 preston bypass this was before internet was readily available so i wasn't able to say for certain but my brother was the authority on this sort of thing so i was confident i was correct and now more annoyed at the teachers went into school the next day and a teacher came up to me and apologized and said i was right they looked it up afterwards shame they only said that in private and not with the rest of the class listening and finding out that i was actually right me telling my father that standing up to and fighting the school bully is the worst idea ever i ended up getting stabbed in the crotch on the school bus to be honest it's generally the better idea to stand up while avoiding to ridiculize him or anything that could cause retaliation if you don't react they will continue picking on you forever i started a lot as a kid so no one ever knew what i was talking about i got bullied by students teachers staff members my brothers and their friends even my own freaking parents who thought discipline would help instead of actually helping i will always remember my mum saying jesus will you stop doing that stupid iii thing it's really freaking annoying fell on my arm when i was 12 13 hurt like heck got told to quit the whining four days later it still hurt whenever i tried to use my hand day five at the doctors they told me i had broken a bone in my wrist i do not whine anymore though i have a rare genetic disorder that causes tumors in the smooth muscle that contracts pores my first and most aggressive patch of tumors cropped up on my leg when i was 12. they are very visible and very painful i showed them to my mom and she was like oh you're just being self-conscious because you're getting older that's just acne i continue to complain about this same patch of tumors for several years i was not taken to a dermatologist until i was 17 my mom being satisfied with a vague diagnosis and an overpriced foaming ointment which has zero effects on actual tumors i was not properly diagnosed until i was 19 after a year of the tumors being blamed on me not properly using the ointment and a year of me living abroad unfortunately the only way to deal with the first and largest patch would be for me to have a skin graft so far in my adult life i have not had time for this i definitely could have managed it as a kid had i been diagnosed at 12 i am 27 i am in pain daily parents in their 50s both in poor health decided to build a new house in a crappy area instead of taking my advice to buy an existing house in a nicer area popular beach suburb i found nice places on the internet and took a day to drive them both around to inspect instead they dropped 500k on a newly built double story townhouse around the corner from social housing no walk to beach no walk to shops complaints about unsavory characters in the area inability to climb stairs due to back injury that's been a problem since 1983 to cap it all off they asked me to sell my things car horse partners cat etc because they needed the money because the pension didn't pay much they failed to plan for their future i reported to my parents and anyone who listened that a big bulge had developed in the bottom of the water tower atop the hill above our neighborhood they just smiled and said i was too young to know what a bulge is and that it was just part of the structure shortly thereafter the water tower burst unleashing a torrent of water and flooding the neighborhood below when learning to drive my parents had this thing where revving the car passed 3 000 revolutions per minute was somehow hurting the car or being reckless do you know how gutless cars used to be a 92 1.6 l corolla is one example plus they only ever had manuals so they would be constantly laboring the engines and only shifting down when absolutely necessary but i was the one thrashing the cars note it's not like i was chasing the red line or anything but a small four-cylinder car needs some spin to get uphill's man that i didn't trust my head teacher when i was in primary school and that i didn't feel well when at that school it was due to anxiety fast forward to the age of 17 i now know that the head teacher threatened to lock a kid with down syndrome in a cupboard she has a kid with down syndrome she covered up a teacher locking an autistic kid in a cupboard she's reported my family along with many others to social services because my parents were causing my brother to cry all the time he had a diagnosis of vibes and his tics he has two ates were incredibly painful and no one believed that he had two ray ttes at that school even after it was diagnosed same with the ibes they also reported my family on the basis that they caused my autism and that my younger sister she's autistic was showing signs of copying elder brother basically they gaslighted my parents when they treated my brother horribly i had left at this point i'm now on medication for life to sort my anxiety depression and stress my parents feel so guilty that they didn't listen to me when i begged to be homeschooled i'm now home educated regardless of the pandemic and going on to my levels they get emotional whenever i bring up my time at primary and now listen and take me seriously one night when i was sleeping i heard some movements in my house i freaked out and called my parents who were sleeping in the next room but they didn't listen to me and thought that i had a bad dream the next day we woke up to find that our house had been burgled i was a paranoid kid and complained to my parents about leaving doors unlocked at night but we were in a safe area and i shouldn't watch so many crime shows they said took my mom's purse being stolen one night for them to listen honestly lucky it was just stuff and not way worse i was 10 and it was like 3am i was sleeping alone in my bedroom when i heard a knock on my window i was too scared to check so i hid in my blanket but the knock won't stop then i quickly ran to my parents bedroom to tell them about the knock they came with me to check but the knocking sound was already gone my parents told me that it was probably nothing and i was imagining things so i went up to bed again but this time i left the light on literally two minutes after my parents left i heard another knock on the window but this time the light were on and i saw the face of a man looking at me i immediately ran to my parents bedroom and told them what i saw but this time they didn't believe me my parents closed the window in the curtains and instead turned on the air conditioning then went back to sleep the knocking stopped but i still didn't sleep that night sorry for my bad english your english is better than mine coming from a native english speaker if you are new to the channel you can subscribe i publish new videos every day until then check another video [Music] bye for now

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Length: 25min 26sec (1526 seconds)

Published: Tue Feb 16 2021