Oh my God, how I love this post.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

As opposed to what, parents who let their kids run wild and beat the shit out of them whenever they're home? I think that fucks up a kid a lot more than being sheltered.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Sheltering doesn't fuck up kids at all. It's when they're finally exposed to the outside world, everything comes as a shock, and that's what fucks them up. It's like how the HIV doesn't do shit to you, but it opens your defenses to everything else.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Evidently, but you seem to have missed my point. That's like saying falling off a cliff doesn't hurt you, the landing does. The sheltering still has a negative impact overall.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Not if you're sheltered your whole life. That's fine. And if you had a fireman net thing you wouldn't die. As you can see (figuratively) the International Space Station is in one piece, despite having been falling for years.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Being sheltered your whole life and never having the shock of what the real world is still hurts you. Imagine never knowing what sex is and having no friends or some shit, that seems pretty damaging to me.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Not really. Your relative quality of life would be lower than some people's, but you wouldn't know that. If I were in a coma, I'd want the plug pulled because it's good for me and my family either way. If I know what's happening, I don't want to be trapped in a vegetable body, and if I don't then I won't know I'm about to die, and my family doesn't have to pay the massive ICU costs.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

That's not true, your parents can't keep you hidden forever. If your parents prevented you from going out or having any sort of social life growing up, you would be in a very bad position when you actually have to be social and look for a job or find a mate or something.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

It doesn't matter if you know it or not, you'd still be hurt mentally. Example, a mentally handicapped person or a psychopath might not know they have a problem, but the problem is still there regardless.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

The point is you never go out, until you die. Assuming you never do shit, and just play and eat with no connection to the outside world without your parents' filtering it first. You'd only be hurt by our standards. By your (the sheltered guy's) own standards, your life is pretty damn great.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

You ever watch any sort of documentary on the people who live inside their whole life? They don't like their life.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I always thought that's because they know what life is like outside, or think superheroes are real and ask why they can't be one or something like that...

by Anonymous 12 years ago

When people aren't socialized, //weird// shit happens to them.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Isn't the entire point of being sheltered to not know what real life is like on the outside?

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Yes, but I think it's inevitable that they eventually realize that they're missing something. Watching TV and movies, it'd be impossible not to know that they're missing out on real life. I mean, unless they're rolling in money and don't need to work or anything, it'd be really difficult to establish their own life if they don't know how to talk to people/have some kind of idea about how the world works. I don't think parents realize that often they pass their personal problems down to their children during their so-called protection from the "harmful world."

by Anonymous 12 years ago

It is better to preprare than to protect.

by Anonymous 12 years ago