What’s The Most Disturbing Thing You Learned About Another Family? 

And saying that the dad died from eating crayons, even if was true only says that the dad was either dumb, mentally ill, or a Marine if he ate so many it ended him. :P

Gonna go out on a limb here and say crayons were not involved in any way in the father’s death. This was something the mother made up to 1) make the daughter feel guilty for not cleaning up after herself; 2) blame the daughter for the father’s death; and 3) not tell the daughter what really happened. Mother was extremely emotionally/mentally abusive and may have had mental issues. Only explanation for doing that to a child. Narrator: don’t believe everything you read. The father did not ingest crayons.

Menstrual cups first came out in the 1930s, but were redesigned and new brands came out in the late 1960s and popularity grew with the women's rights movements. I was born in the late 80s and Diva cups were on shelves by the time I menstruated in the mid 90s. O.B. brand applicatorless tampons came out in the 70s, iirc, but as single use plastic popularity soared through the 80s and 90s tampons with applicators and adhesive pads and liners became the most popular options. Menstrual disks were an option I read about in a teen magazine in the late 90s. With new moisture wicking fabrics period panties have picked up popularity in the last decade. My mom was a nurse, so she allowed my sister and I to use tampons if we wanted as long as we read the package insert and understood the risks and signs of tss.

@@Just1Nora That's cool! I guess I was kinda "sheltered" because I didn't hear about the cups until around 2000.

We were church-going conservatives, but my mom had sense. She knew a tampon was a hygiene tool, nothing sexual. Those religious nut mothers must have been miserable to believe that nonsense.

Little kids are especially susceptible to this. Something to do with strong neural connections.

It sounds like the dad had Pika and mom didn't know the crayons didn't do it

I agree. That room was a prison for him. I believe he did what he think he had to do to escape that prison. Burning it to the point of no repair.

I was always allowed something to drink but it was water. I got juice or soda afterwards

Is it? I thought there should always be a glass of water next to the meal? Not just for safety, but it's basic table setting.

My father had that rule :/ It's bad enough when it's just not being able to settle your stomach or have something that is actually appealing on hand, but the MFer burned EVERYTHING. He was the type of man that could make oatmeal inedible, and also a man that greatly enjoyed adding copious amounts of sugar or salt to every meal. Even got mad if my sister or I 'drunk too much' throughout the day. We had to sneak water generally, but always had a small stash for his wretched cooking. Eating sand would've been nicer in hindsight.

I remember this well and experienced it in the mid to late 70s. The tampons were called Rely and they, reportedly, absorbed 20 times their weight in menstrual fluids. I bought a pack, opened it up and the tampons were honeycombed and felt “plastic-y”. I used one and within minutes broke into serious itches down there. I removed it and it was so irritated that I had to use pads for the rest of that period. Not long after, we started hearing about women getting sick and/or dying from Toxic Shock Syndrome.

TRIGGER WARNING (Child and adult S abuse) A friend of mine move in down the road from me when we were in junior high or so. We were already friends from school and I loved her being closer to me. Friend's mom and dad had a biker friend named Bear (real nickname, but it IS a nickname) that'd come around for over a year. One day, I see Bear riding away from their house (remember it vividly) and think nothing of it at the time. Later that week, friend tells me that she came home early (my mom gave her a ride that day vs walking so she was about 20+ mins earlier and we usually hung out at school after the bell, so even earlier than typical), and saw Bear had cornered her mom in the kitchen and had stuck his hands down her pants. She reports you could tell her mom didn't want it and was trying yo get him off her. Even after all that, it took about an hour for Bear to actually leave when the dad came home early from work and dragged him out of the house, threatening him with a sharp beer bottle. She told me at the time that she recently had a dream where an actual bear was threatening her family but her dad hunted it and they ended up eating Bear during the camping trip ahe wa on in the dream. She and I both believe she is a prolific dreamer. About... 12 ish years ago or so, she asks to stop by as she needs to wait for something at the store to be ready and she lived to far away to justify leaving and coming back. Hubby has never met her so while her kids and mine were playing in another room we talk all about our teenage faux pas. I get to the day I see Bear drive away on his bike for the last time and she tells me there is more to that story. She checked that the kids couldn't hear and then proceeds to tell me something... just sick. *BAD TRIGGER, NEXT PARAGRAPH* A few years after wed graduated high school, (like 7 or so years after the original dream), she had the same bear dream again. BUT, this time, instead of her dad hunting it, the bear big-spoon cuddles with a bear cub and "rocks" slowly with it. She was convinced it wasn't actual "rocking," so she called an acquaintance of her brother's that was a PI. Coincidently, his wife a social worker with APS (adult protective services), which will be important later. Long story short, PI finds Bear and she says "it's a good thing wife worked for APS or else [PI] would have done serious damage to him" upfront. He'd got into the house with some ruse and while the wrestling chatting, a 6 to 8 year old girl comes in the living room and kneels beside Bear to play. IDR if he said who she was to him, but his granddaughter or granddaughter of a friend or whoever that he was watching is what my brain always remembers. After being done with her toy or whatever a few minutes after coming into the room, she turns to Bear and begins 🌬 him. In front of company! Like it was normal!!! Bear is just sitting there all casually for a while and then asks PI friend and says "you want some of this?" as he motions to the girl, still bobbing away. PI was freaked the royal F out, make an excuse, and ran home, exceeding the speed limit by double digits the entire way. He was so messed up by this, he just manically rambals the entire thing to his wife (thankfully she was home and alone at the time) the second he walked in the door at home. She's a mandatory reporter, so she calls her old boss, who's now the head of the state CPS office as it was different counties and different jurisdictions and reports the entire thing! They did an "emanate danger" removal of all minors in the home within like an hour. I could be getting this mixed up with someone else, but my memory says the niece was running a home daycare during the week in the other half of his duplex/twin house. No idea if anything happened there, but she'd been running it for over a year and the yard was a fenced in space that both sides had access to. I know the PI had to go to court a few times to testify, but it never went to full trial. IDR why and due to my own past, I don't know if I even asked. My hope is that Bear got shanked in jail while awaiting trial and bled out slowly, on the floor, while the prisoners and guards watched and high-fived each other.

Yeah, that's what I've heard from a few different people. My last ex bf wouldn't put his mouth on the spout of my water bottle or the lip of my cup. Kiss me? French me? No problems. But drink directly from my drinks? NOPE. So bizarre. He's likely autistic and has a few other odd behaviors, like irrational discomfort over microwave use and eating microwaved food. Like his parents must have fed him that line about getting cancer from staring into the microwave or something. He's a smart guy and everything, but a bit quirky. The thought of saliva makes me sick and nearly gag, but drinks don't bother me, and I got over the kissing thing pretty quickly. My elementary school did fluoride treatments for the kids a few times a year, but as we already did them nightly my mom declined it for us, especially as the school often used the bubblegum flavored stuff which made me ill, but I had to stand in the classroom, listen to everyone swish and spit back into their little plastic cups and to "include me," and sometimes one other boy, I had to carry the trash can around and hold it for everyone to dispose of their cups, like right in front on my face. It was so hard to not gag and I'd plug my ears when everyone spit so I didn't have to hear it, and now typing all of that out I'm very nauseous and hyper-aware of my own saliva. Wish I wouldn't have shared that.

This is a false statement. Women (or girls) can use tampons. Please don’t sexualize menstruation, this is how misinformation is perpetuated. Please educate yourself on female anatomy if you don’t understand that a tampon does not penetrate the hymen or have anything do with that at all. And how big do you think tampons are?!

@@JustAGalOnTheGo Dude, there is nothing sexualized about periods. And I think growing up with 4 sisters and being around mostly females my ENTIRE 21 years of living I would know quite a bit about this. My mother even gave me the talk about the situation despite being a male. You need to watch yourself before you harass and try to correct others.

@@JustAGalOnTheGo I have even had to go into stores with my mother so she could get herself and my sisters tampons and pads. Tampons can be used by females before losing their virginity but it is not recommended by doctors. Do not try correcting someone who has a good bit of knowledge on this stuff. If you actually read my comment, you most likely misunderstood what I said or you didn't read the whole comment before making that assumption.

@@JustAGalOnTheGo PLEASE READ ALL COMMENTS BEFORE ACTUALLY REPLYING!!!

​@@Samthemule2003 I think because you mentioned 'until girls lose their virginity' which is connected to purity culture. But generally that's also wrong as the issue is more on TSS which waaaaay back when is pretty fatal because of how tampons were made (Theyre made with safe materials now but the fear remains for older people). The mom in the story probably was wary of that and mixed it with purity culture. (Because it had the implication of penetration and can kill you as a rare bonus so it must be impure and fatal so therefore, bad) If doctors dont recommend it today, its more due to maybe young girls will have more trouble using them as opposed to just a pad. Not because theyre virgins, which you kinda forgot to add on all of your comments. Also dude, were in the internet comments. It wouldve been better if you explained all this in the first comment. Though some people generally just read the first sentence and blow up at the poster immediately so dont stress on it.