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<blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 9563528" data-attributes="member: 4937">My parents and I had a spirited disagreement about it for about 2 or 3 hours.&nbsp; I think this is the first time I can remember defying my parents.&nbsp; They asked my opinion as was usual, they didn't like it this time and it was about me this time, and they set to trying to convince me I was wrong.&nbsp; I was like 13 and had an IQ several standard deviations above normal and read voraciously.&nbsp; The debate was both intellectual and heated.&nbsp; In the end, I like Galileo conceded but also didn't concede.&nbsp; The books got burned.&nbsp; But abuse?&nbsp; No.&nbsp; It wasn't abuse.&nbsp; My dad's cousin his age he grew up with committed suicide and D&amp;D/occult was considered by the family to have played a role in his mental health problems.&nbsp; Dad was just trying to do what he thought was best to protect his family, and honestly the argument turned more on my little brother's behavior than on mine (because my brother at the time was acting out some of his own frustrations).&nbsp; I think Dad was wrong but I don't think that was abuse.&nbsp; He was acting on the information he had available to him at the time out of good intent with respect to me as a person.&nbsp; That wasn't always the case with my parents, but it was vastly more often than not, and as a parent, no parent or person is perfect.&nbsp; It's nigh 40 years later and my Dad played D&amp;D with me as the DM at Christmas, because well, both me and the little brother turned out OK after all.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Celebrim, post: 9563528, member: 4937"] My parents and I had a spirited disagreement about it for about 2 or 3 hours. I think this is the first time I can remember defying my parents. They asked my opinion as was usual, they didn't like it this time and it was about me this time, and they set to trying to convince me I was wrong. I was like 13 and had an IQ several standard deviations above normal and read voraciously. The debate was both intellectual and heated. In the end, I like Galileo conceded but also didn't concede. The books got burned. But abuse? No. It wasn't abuse. My dad's cousin his age he grew up with committed suicide and D&D/occult was considered by the family to have played a role in his mental health problems. Dad was just trying to do what he thought was best to protect his family, and honestly the argument turned more on my little brother's behavior than on mine (because my brother at the time was acting out some of his own frustrations). I think Dad was wrong but I don't think that was abuse. He was acting on the information he had available to him at the time out of good intent with respect to me as a person. That wasn't always the case with my parents, but it was vastly more often than not, and as a parent, no parent or person is perfect. It's nigh 40 years later and my Dad played D&D with me as the DM at Christmas, because well, both me and the little brother turned out OK after all. [/QUOTE]

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