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My dad. With everything I do he has to find some rough lining. He's quite fond of reading "articles" and takes them as complete gospel. Worse, he further convinces himself into believing that the things these articles are conveying are in fact commonplace and happen all the time.
Ex. I like to camp and hike. He has never done these things in his entire life. Every time I see him I'm constantly pounded by "I wish you didn't do these things" and "it's too dangerous." To him, car camping at developed campgrounds might as well be Russian roulette. Mountain lions and bears are everywhere and hunger ONLY for human flesh and actively seek it because they have nothing else to eat. Bad men with knives and guns roam the woods on a regular basis. Getting wet will kill you instantly. It's always the same "this article said" BS.
Ex. 2: We saw a person flying a powered parachute and I said how I would like to take up the activity in the future. This is probably close to one of the safest forms of flying there is. 30mph. You're flying a goddamned parachute. If your engine cuts out, you're on a goddamned parachute. Only real risks are your lines get tangled and power lines.
Guess what my dad starts spewing?
"In this article I read that a flock of birds kept on attacking this person flying in his parachute. He tried to evade them but they kept attacking. They bit him a lot of times, and one of them got snagged in his lines and he began to spiral out of control. It was only with a lot of luck that he managed to get free. He almost died. Never do such things."
Ex. 3: Skiing. He reads articles all the time of people's lives being ruined from skiing accidents (paralysis, even just broken limbs). He doesn't allow skiing.
Right now his fixation is snow. California is being battered with snowstorms and since it's in the VERY general area of Phoenix, AZ, he's worried to death about my life being taken away by a snowstorm. He absolutely hates snow.
His second fixation right now is that hiker in Georgia who has become missing. This is just further fueling his fear of all things outside of his armchair.
I mean, how can people like him live like this? He's 60 and getting to the time of retiring. He does nothing interesting with his life except work and stay at home polluting his mind with these "articles." No matter what I say, it doesn't change the fact that he'd rather just ignore sense and instead focus on everything that could go wrong.
Ex. I like to camp and hike. He has never done these things in his entire life. Every time I see him I'm constantly pounded by "I wish you didn't do these things" and "it's too dangerous." To him, car camping at developed campgrounds might as well be Russian roulette. Mountain lions and bears are everywhere and hunger ONLY for human flesh and actively seek it because they have nothing else to eat. Bad men with knives and guns roam the woods on a regular basis. Getting wet will kill you instantly. It's always the same "this article said" BS.
Ex. 2: We saw a person flying a powered parachute and I said how I would like to take up the activity in the future. This is probably close to one of the safest forms of flying there is. 30mph. You're flying a goddamned parachute. If your engine cuts out, you're on a goddamned parachute. Only real risks are your lines get tangled and power lines.
Guess what my dad starts spewing?
"In this article I read that a flock of birds kept on attacking this person flying in his parachute. He tried to evade them but they kept attacking. They bit him a lot of times, and one of them got snagged in his lines and he began to spiral out of control. It was only with a lot of luck that he managed to get free. He almost died. Never do such things."
Ex. 3: Skiing. He reads articles all the time of people's lives being ruined from skiing accidents (paralysis, even just broken limbs). He doesn't allow skiing.
Right now his fixation is snow. California is being battered with snowstorms and since it's in the VERY general area of Phoenix, AZ, he's worried to death about my life being taken away by a snowstorm. He absolutely hates snow.
His second fixation right now is that hiker in Georgia who has become missing. This is just further fueling his fear of all things outside of his armchair.
I mean, how can people like him live like this? He's 60 and getting to the time of retiring. He does nothing interesting with his life except work and stay at home polluting his mind with these "articles." No matter what I say, it doesn't change the fact that he'd rather just ignore sense and instead focus on everything that could go wrong.
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