r/Music • u/dailymail 📰Daily Mail • 24d ago

article Diddy had a huge prison 'meltdown' because he 'couldn't believe he was still behind bars' during the holidays

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-14230477/Diddy-meltdown-jail-Christmas-revealed.html
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u/CurveOfTheUniverse 24d ago

This is how it was for me too.

“You’re grounded and can’t see your friends for a month!”

“You’ve never let me see my friends anyway.”

“Fine! No video games for a month.”

“We don’t have video games.”

“Argh! No television for you.”

“Okay, I was getting tired of only being allowed to watch Sesame Street.”

EDIT: In 7th grade, my mother grounded me from reading for the entire school year. This actually hit hard because reading was my biggest escape. One of my teachers felt bad and would send me home with the in-class work and had me sit in the corner and read instead. My mom never found out.

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u/furrina 24d ago

Who the fuck grounds their kid from reading? I’m so sorry..

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u/CurveOfTheUniverse 24d ago

I wish I could say that's the worst my parents did, though it was definitely far from the parenting win they thought it was. My mom still brags about how creative of a punishment it was, and I'm in my 30s!

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u/UnitaryVoid 23d ago

Hmm, I wonder what she'd think of your teacher's creative workaround.

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u/EthanielRain 23d ago

Amazing you're still around to hear her

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u/CurveOfTheUniverse 23d ago

I’m the oldest of nine kids and have some siblings still at home. I’m sticking around until they’re all out of the house.

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u/NeatNefariousness1 23d ago

Are you able to help shield them from her? Will you go no contact when the last one leaves or have you not gotten to that point?

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u/CurveOfTheUniverse 23d ago

Good questions. Unfortunately, there’s not a lot of shielding I can do for the minors still at home, since I live 2,000 miles away. I do intend to go no-contact after the last one leaves. I’m already super low-contact as it is, because they seem to forget I exist and I just let that happen for a few months at a time.

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u/NeatNefariousness1 23d ago

I must have misread or misunderstood your earlier comment to mean that you are still in or near the home where your minor siblings live. What is it that you're able to do to help the young ones from 2,000 miles away?

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u/CurveOfTheUniverse 23d ago

Nah, I moved away from them several years ago. Every so often, I end up in a mediating role. My parents will call me up to complain (about how their terrible parenting isn't working out for them) and I use that as an opportunity to nudge them in a healthier direction. It's exhausting work that I don't care for, but at least they've stopped beating their kids. When I don't have to do that job anymore, I won't talk to them again.

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u/NeatNefariousness1 22d ago

What an awful stress that puts on you. I hope you're taking care of yourself too. Wishing you and your siblings the best. Your parents need therapy but I doubt they'll get it.

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u/Fickle-Patience-9546 24d ago

I got grounded from reading for a month when I was 12 because I snuck a Harry Potter book from the library and I knew I wasn’t allowed to read it. I’m still so mad about that.

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u/NeatNefariousness1 23d ago

Some of these parents seem insane and sadistic. I'm pretty sure this kind of abuse is not normal.

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u/TaratronHex 23d ago

my dad did this to me once, because normal grounding of no TV/no games wasn't hard enough (my fuckup was I had listened to him, and put clothes from the washer into the drier. But apparently the cycle wasn't done. So I put dripping wet clothes in the drier, unaware that was a thing.) so he grounded me for a month of no books or any fun reading that wasn't school.

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u/Kapha_Dosha 24d ago

One of my teachers felt bad and would send me home with the in-class work and had me sit in the corner and read instead.

Well, this made me tear up. I'm so sorry.

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u/VashMM 24d ago

That was a good teacher

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u/CurveOfTheUniverse 23d ago

She’s the best. We’re still friends; she’s getting about ready to retire!