How many were abused due to their love of D&D, RPGs, and related items when they were young?

[Mannahnin]

Minors and property rights are a complicated issue.

In most states, right to property comes along with the age of being able to engage in legally binding contract. A few have differences, I've read. But generally, that's somewhere in the mid teens.

As a friend found out at 15, when his mother burned his D&D books, he had NO legal recourse because he was 15 when she did so. No property rights until age 16 in that state.

I was speaking morally. Laws usually lag behind moral development.

 

[Ath'kethin]

It's kind of funny; I don't think I ever experienced any kind of real abuse about it, and certainly not from my parents (my mother was the one who bought me ICE's MERP, the first RPG product I ever owned, as well as the original Dark Sun box set), but I definitely felt ashamed of the hobby when I was younger and sometimes I still have some trouble talking about it to strangers.

One of my best frioends growing up wasn't allowed contact with anything D&D related (his mother made him return the Dragonlance Chronicles omnibus I loaned him because it was D&D related, which confused the hell out of me at the time - I didn't have any idea what D&D was, and the book said nothing about it as far as I could see), so maybe I picked it up secondhand?