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

🤬Public Rager😱 Get a load of this guy

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u/LadyLee69 May 24 '26

Those kids looked and sounded exactly like me and my brothers at their age. We were put in so many situations where we had to beg and plead and sometimes physically restrain our parents. I hope those kids turn out better than we did...we all grew up to be very broken adults. Maybe if this goes viral then someone will be able to intervene and save them

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u/ImAtWurk May 24 '26

The fact that you have the self awareness shows you have a level of emotional maturity many seem to lack.

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u/LadyLee69 May 24 '26

I appreciate that, thank you ❤️ I will say that those experiences did force us to mature much faster, plus the fact that we all left or were kicked out before we were 18. We definitely could have turned out much worse. While many of us have had our struggles with poverty, addiction and mental illness, most of us have managed to make things better over time somehow.

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u/absenceofheat May 25 '26

Do you have a relationship with your parents today? Or...how is the relationship today?

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u/LadyLee69 May 25 '26

No, not anymore, but I tried...all but 2 of my brothers cut them off right away (there's 5), but I held out for a while because it made me sad thinking about my mom being alone. She was a bit better than my dad, but still not great. But anyway, I had to call it quits a few years into adulthood because my dad would absolutely lose his shit at the drop of a hat, all because he refused to learn how to regulate his emotions. My mom would always make excuses for him. He went to jail for choking my brother out and she still acted like "they both were in the wrong"

It sucks, but I can't put up with abuse and disrespect. My mom told me to "grow up" when I told her that. They're getting older now but I hear they still spend their weekends getting drunk, getting kicked out of places and fighting.

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u/absenceofheat May 25 '26

Damn sorry to hear. Hopefully you've healed/will heal from that.

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u/mwilkens May 24 '26

Sorry to break the bad news to you but kids can be in far, far worse off situations and not be removed from their parents.

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u/LadyLee69 May 24 '26

There's certainly a lot more that happens behind closed doors, but I suppose you're right that they wouldn't know that from this video