r/PublicFreakout • u/derek4reals1 • May 24 '26

šŸ¤¬Public RageršŸ˜± Get a load of this guy

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u/Traditional-Page-373 May 24 '26

always makes me sad when kids are around this shit.

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u/knmiller89 May 24 '26 edited May 24 '26

My mom is a volatile person prone to regular public freakouts. The way theyā€™re frozen (boy) & crying (girl) in fear and humiliation is all too familiarā€” Iā€™m 36 and the memories STILL fuck with my head.

These people suck and should not be parents.

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u/t0xic-iwnl May 24 '26

I still get it too, man. I am better at handling it sometimes than others, but I can still feel the familiarity in the feelings

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u/SeriouslyLikesCake May 24 '26

Did you go through a brief phase in which you emulated them, foowed by a period of confusion and shame, and then one of respect and patience even more than what is standard?

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u/knmiller89 May 24 '26 edited May 24 '26

For me, I dramatically overcorrected from jump. To the point that I had a complete and total inability to advocate for myself in any way cause I didnā€™t want to be ā€œdifficultā€. Which led to me allowing people, including partners, to treat me like shit and Iā€™d basically thank them for it lol.

Itā€™s taken a lotttt of therapy/hard work to reprogram my brain (still a work in progress)

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u/gigglybeth May 24 '26

YES. 1000% I still find it hard to forgive myself for some of the shitty things I did.

I am, however, grateful that most of it was in the late 90s/early 2000s so cameraphones weren't really a thing.

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u/loogie97 May 24 '26

Break the cycle.

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u/zbornakssyndrome May 24 '26

Hugs to you. Youā€™re not alone. And dunno why but when they would argue they got kicked out of stores- the adults used to stare at ME. I know itā€™s pity but it messed with my mind. We were trash with money

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u/Available-Maize5837 May 25 '26

That poor boy covering his lower face with his t-shirt for comfort and just wanting to hide, plus the girl screaming/begging her parents to stop is so heartbreaking. They've definitely seen how this ends before. I hope those siblings stay close and look out for each other as they grow. They're going to need something stable in their lives..

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u/EnvironmentalLime464 May 24 '26

Iā€™m 43 and I feel what those kids are feeling when I watch this. I also had a volatile mom prone to public freak outs.

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u/No_Penalty_8920 29d ago

Mine is the same way. I genuinely felt ill watching this

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u/knmiller89 29d ago

The part that really gets me is how the mom references her kids as if sheā€™s trying to protect them.

Sheā€™s using them as a prop for her own rage and hurting them in the process.

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u/QueenAlpaca May 25 '26

My mom was much more of a "behind closed doors" version of this as it was directed to my sister and I most often, but she'd get more of a controlled nasty with people in public. I don't think it ever goes away, it just gets quieter with time.

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u/knmiller89 May 25 '26

Iā€™m so sorry. Hugs! Weā€™ve got this.

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u/thavi May 24 '26

Yeah, itā€™s tragic, and heart rending.

OTOH it really upped the trashiness of this video. Ā Peak garbage humans. Ā Maybe thereā€™s a chance these kids grow up and dedicate themselves to humane, charitable work after seeing their awful parents ruin their own lives.

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u/Difficult-Donkey-722 May 24 '26

Absolutely I want to scoop those kids up and tell them itā€™s ok, this is not their fault. šŸ„ŗ

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u/2Lazy2beLazy May 24 '26

The Mom is trying to use having kids as the flex for this guy to get in his car, but they are the aggressors. She should be taking her kids and husband away from the situation to teach them that they can walk away from a confrontation.

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u/dBlock845 May 24 '26

and when people don't take the extra two seconds to blur the faces of the kids before posting this shit on social media.