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I wanted to take gymnastics, but I was told that I was too tall (that's when I was 8. I am now 21 and 5'0").

I wanted to take karate. That received a resounded no without explanation.

I wanted to play soccer, but I was told it was too late. For what, I am not sure.

I wanted piano lessons but that was too expensive. I learned on my own until the keyboard was taken away (her reasoning was that it was hers and she no longer wanted it in my room.).

I wanted to go into forensic anthropology. I was told that I could never manage that.

I wanted to study zoology and breed, sell, and educate about ball pythons (my special interest) and other reptiles (a general interest). I was told that that was stupid and weird and that I should go into business.

I wanted to see a psychologist to help get my anxiety under control. I was pulled out and told that it would never help me and that I should just take medication because no one has time to deal with my problems.

I want to go back to school, and see a therapist for the panic disorder, depression, and AS, and finish my computer science degree. I am currently being discouraged and told to just find a job to have for the rest of my life. I have decided not to listen to my family anymore. I suggest you do the same.

Take ballet. Play all of the instruments. Make yourself happy!

Good suggestions for all of us ! ! Hear, hear ! ! Leave your past behind you and do what you've always wanted to do, even if you fall flat (so to speak).

I think some parents tell their kids No to things involving extracurricular activities(like someone saying he wants to be a professional athlete, a musician, artist ect) because the parents think those activities would interfere with school, cost them money, inconvenience by bringing them, or would take the kid away from things like household chores, family stuff, time he needs to relax so he won't burn himself out ect

For now, I weasled my way into the Air Force and ship out in the winter time. I recieved a mechanical job, but I'm trying to renegotiate to a medical job once I get down to basic (my ASVAB score was a 98 - it might just work out). Right now I'm just living for basic while volunteering to film practices for a high school football team to keep my mind busy. And I have been assessing myself indeed. Thank you.



By the time I get to college, I'll be twenty-six or twenty-seven. Enlisting for six years, shipping out at twenty-and-a-half. If that's not too old, then I would definitely consider it. The irony of my ballet aspiration is.. I'd feel terribly awkward about picking up a girl the way I've seen in ballet shows. Seems intrusive.



Not just my parents. While some of the ''No'' segments were from my parents, many others (including ones not listed there) have been from teachers, preachers, psychologists, psychiatrists, etc.



All the same, I'm now an agnostic due to the emotional abuse suffered at the hands of God's mouthpieces (Heck, one of them told me I was cured of autism years ago and that my odd behaviour was a symptom of the music I listened to - HAHA!). And I did try my hands at football in my last year of high school - was projected to be 3rd string varsity outside reciever before I screwed my knee up.



I hope to learn bass guitar, mandolin, and acoustic guitar before I die.


In regards to not listening to family - I definitely agree. I learned that lesson four years ago, but sadly the effects of listening to my parents unconditionally for the first sixteen years are still felt.

Thank you all for the kind words.