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They're young. You were young too once. If you're looking to blame someone, look at the parents.

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I think you and I had this argument once.

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Like a runaway

It's true that this is a support sight, meaning that it is understandable that teens would come on here seeking help with their problems. Once you hear about the same situation over and over you start to lose sympathy, and stop giving out your advice. In the end, the words that we speak aren't going to mean much to someone who really doesn't want to listen to them. (hopefully this made sense.) I think a lot of kids want to hear that their problems are unique, and the second you tell them otherwise, they lose any and all respect for you, and will automatically think you are looking down on them, or think that you know where they've been, etc, etc...

Throughout all of the things that I have been through, I really don't remember coming onto Livewire and making a legitimate complaint. I come from a poor, unloving, and abusive family, and I've learned to be strong and mature quickly because of the things I've been forced to endure. I'm not even 18 yet, and I have basically given up on all of my dreams due to the fact that I need to survive and support myself. I work a full time job, pay for my own things, pay my parents money, and continue to treat them with respect, despite the fact that I receive none from them. In the end, they are my parents, and looking down on them, even though they fucked with me, gets me absolutely no where. We can't change where we've come from, so I just wish people would learn to accept it and stop complaining.

I know one honest topic like this is going to change nothing about the things that take place on Livewire, but at least it makes ME feel better, and helps me to realize that I'm not the only person on here who thinks this way. I come here to give and get support, but I have found that lately, there isn't much supporting that is actually taking place.

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Quote: from Nikki at 10:25 am on July 23, 2008

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They're young. You were young too once. If you're looking to blame someone, look at the parents.

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I think you and I had this argument once.

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We did - it was about teen pregnancies, I do believe!

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faut souffrir pour etre belle
♥ [27/12/08]
be the change you wish to see in the world

I think the true problem is, some of the people here actually BELIEVE they are grateful, intelligent, and mature.  See, now that's what makes me laugh..

And the people on here make me laugh a lot.  

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I've got spurs that jingle jangle jingle.
As I go riding merrily along.
And they sing, "Oh, ain't you glad you're single?"
And that song ain't so very far from wrong.

or they are just pathetic and bored and want attention from someone because nobody in rl will give it to them.

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only soup cans need labels

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i'm 18, i pay my own gas, my own car insurance, cell phone bill, etc. and in turn my parents help me out with what they see as fit.

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That's not the same as paying rent, food, bills, gas and utilities, transport, education, books etc, tuition and everything else that comes along with being an adult.

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faut souffrir pour etre belle
♥ [27/12/08]
be the change you wish to see in the world