My life, to my parents
I am 20 years old and my parents don't really know me any more, I feel. As far as I know they still think I'm their really sweet innocent daughter and that butter wouldn't melt. They don't know I'm not a virgin, which amuses me quite a lot as my mother has on several occasions attempted to probe me and find out but will never ask me outright and I always look like I don't know what she's talking about and change the subject. They also don't know that I drink alcohol and yet I am a university student! My parents are a little naive, I feel. They have also failed to notice my minor psychological problems that rear their ugly heads every time I do exams, and have been for the past 5 years, and I can actually be about to have a panic attack in front of them and hide it. I haven't been home since April and have no desire to until August. It makes me quite sad really, I wish they could see the real me sometimes and I have tried but I lost the ability to talk to them about anything important a long time ago. Then again sometimes I don't know who I am, so how can I expect anyone else to know?

On a more lighthearted note, I actually cannot fake anything or lie to anyone ever. This is actually a surprising advantage when it comes to poker because it makes my play very unpredictable (even to myself!). I also have never (successfully) faked an orgasm!

Length? It needs to be longer than that, honey ;)
(Petite chien is going to do science to it, Sun 13 Jul 2008, 17:09, 5 replies)

That's a shame
I think we all mellow over time, and hopefully you will all get to know eachother properly one day. Maybe you'll have children of your own at some point, which throws all relationships/roles around. It should make your folks see you in a different light (and solve the question of your virginity) ;o)
( Tourette's ( . )( . ) has a monkey hair in her fried egg, Sun 13 Jul 2008, 18:26, closed)

they know
they know you better than you may think. I doubt much would surprise them. try it. will make your life easier.
( BadBadman saw an incorrect comma placement on, Mon 14 Jul 2008, 0:32, closed)

It'll pass...
Yeah, what BadBadMan said is entirely correct. We all think that we are dangerous, mysterious individuals when we are 20, sadly a few years later we all tend to find out that our parents had more than an inkling of what we were getting up to :P
(Boar is dreaming of get rich quick schemes..., Mon 14 Jul 2008, 2:03, closed)

I
do really really wish I could talk to them, I love my parents very much. I'm not so bothered about them finding out about what I'm up to - you are right and I think they probably do know anyway! I'm just more worried about telling them about my problems with anxiety, but that's the problem with anxiety - it makes you worry irrationally!
(Petite chien is going to do science to it, Mon 14 Jul 2008, 9:28, closed)

ditto
I would say my parents know me, but I'm physically in able to tell them how I feel, I also tell the truth, but in such a way that people can hear what they want to hear.

I've been worrying over the same thing, my most resent revelation was that (apart from the anonymity of the internet) I wouldn't ever tell anyone about this. So it may even be extremely common, how would you know? More importantly why do I have this need to feel unique...
(K9, Mon 14 Jul 2008, 16:43, closed)