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Things your parents like that you don't

Keith

Keith

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MOM
Reading (not that I don't, it's just that my mom loves reading a lot more than I do)
Figure Skating

DAD
Cycling (I can ride a bike, but I haven't ridden in years and never learned how to use a handbrake or shift gears)
Fishing
Camping (I like camping to a mild extent, but Dad loves camping, especially in the woods)
 
My parents are what i can call "social butterflies", what means that they are very sociable, have many friends and like to hang out with them
some times. They also like to go out together, met new places,make trips, go to social parties and drink in social situations. They this social things i can never do because it's uncomfortable to me to do.
 
How did I miss this thread before???
My parents like socializing, small talk, talking too loudly, sightseeing, family gatherings, family pictures, church, Christian radio hits, and generally being normal. I don't.
 
My family like company and talking to our family. Me well i don't speak to my family much apart from my uncle who i work with. I like my space they like company i think. When i was a child i had to go to the shops with my mum, i hated it. I try think of more but i cant think due to i don't talk to my family and i dunno what they like doing.
 
atrocityexhibition said:
SPORTS! This applies to both of them :(
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Yup... same here. I have little to no interest in sports... especially not the sports my parents are into. My dad's into Soccer, Cycling, Iceskating and pretty much watches any type of competitive sporting event that's broadcasted. If I'm watching sports it's most likely MMA type of stuff.

Erm...

They're both into all these facebook games. Ugh.. Candy crush, lol. And then there's gardening. My mom smokes a lot and I never got the appeal in that either. My dad used to smoke but quit overnight cause of health issues, but still he did for 30 years or so. Plenty of television shows; I'm not into drama's or these televised german cop shows, nor am I into gameshows of any kind.

That's what comes to mind right now...
 
Both parents drank and smoked.

I hate both of these habits.

After my mom got a divorce from my dad and married a really drunken, smoking bum who couldn't keep a job we moved every year. I can't even remember how many times we have moved when I was still with my parents.

I hated this also. Since I've been on my own I have lived in my present place for about 34 years. The first place was an apartment where every one bitched about running the vacuum cleaner or even walking across the floor where I only lived there for a year. And the landlady would come in my apartment and steel things while I was at work. So I moved in a rental house for 7 years and found a house to buy where I lived for about 5 years and was forced out through eminent domain. So I'm really glad that I was able to settled down staying in one place. :)
 
IContainMultitudes said:
"True Crime" and "Reality" tv shows, socialization.
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my dad watches those shows all the time (Forensic Files, First 48, Cold Case Files)

if he is trying to get a point across (about online stranger danger) or who to and who not to trust, I get the point and I dont just let anyone in or accept things from just anyone, more less TV to learn what is ok and not ok to do with online friends, he thinks I will be a victim of something like that Craigslist killer.

and yes, it is something I don't like that much, but yet I will watch them too, I hate when its the same episode over and over again for a couple days in a row at same time.

another thing I don't like too much is his friendship with a woman that cracks on me and says negative comments (about body image) (she will make fun of you and not want to be around you if you look fat to her, but yet she looks like she just survived a concentration/death camp (Auschwitz?) skin and bones. so I keep my distance and she still wonders at times why I do not want to take any rides in her car with her or be round her or want to go swimming, I may miss the pool/beach but I don't miss the BS that I would get from her about my body.

my Mom: guitar, smokes and her big collection of cars

she smokes (no idea how much packs a day, but sounds like she is coughing up a lung when I talk to her (when she does answer the phone) and her guitar, she will join a (questionable) group in a band and play music with them for money (how much, I don't know), but many times all they get in the end is bragging rights that they played music.

I mean my mom will put that guitar over her own health, if shes not feeling good, she will grab her base guitar (electric guitar) and go practice or play all night, it can be any day of the week or where in TN the practice is, she is right there with the group,

I know many people love their cars and will go to great lengths to build up a nice collection, my mom, I admire she likes hearses and limos but have 15 vehicles?? and only drive 1 or 2, then tells me the city or county likes them and wants them?? (more like they think she has a used car lot and is threatening to take them away, no idea how my mom did it or how she goes on paying the registration and insurance on all the vehicles!! I know I have alot of door closers in a collection, but whenever I would tell her I got another one to add, she would sound saddened or depressed as if its a problem or hard work. so now I dont tell her when I get a new one (or add another old one to my collection)
 
My mom is a very social person. Me, not so much.

My dad shares a lottttt of my aspie traits.. the one thing he loves that I can't stand is fishing. Only because once you catch something they look so scared and start flopping around, it makes me panic until I can get them back in the water. Even *if* they're not in pain, that kind of spastic desperation really gets to me.
 
I was adopted, so that and being an Aspie was a double whammy for likes and dislikes. My folks are big into sports, social gatherings, espicaly when I was a child as my father was a well known local doctor. I like to be outdoors, camping, playing with my model trains and mostly being alone. My parents are very white collar in thier chosen job field, so are my younger sisters (natural children to my adoptive parents). Whereas I am very blue collar, love driving a big rig down the road and turning wrenches. Do more wrench turning now, the stress of driving wasnt doing my marriage any good, or me. Mike
 
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