This is a kinda embrassing question to ask so pls don’t judge.

I did have moments where I like… went to the local library alone, or like an all day school trip or something…

But I never really like… explored outside alone… especially far from home…

So like… I feel scared about the idea of like… just going for a walk all by myself…

I realize I’ve always just asked parents to drive me somewhere so I never got a chance to just get in the habit of being by myself.

I don’t have a driver’s license so I don’t really have like a car to “retreat to”, if you know what I mean, like as in sort of “castle”.

How do I even “feel safe” just being outside on my own? For context I’m non-white so it’s… kinda intimidating… especially in the current context of US political atmosphere.

  • Routhinator@startrek.websiteEnglish
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    11 hours ago

    This is exactly my problem with BCs stupid laws. Kids can’t be without their parents until 11.

    ELEVEN!

    Christ. How do they ever learn independence when they spend all of the most crucial years of their development forcibly tied to the parents hip?

    I was allowed to go to the corner store at five. By ten I was completely independent and mowing lawns as an afterschool job.