re: Were you forbidden from hanging with certain kids when growing up? How did they turn out?

Mixed bag: a very few are doing really well, most are okay, some are dead, some are still living the shark life and a couple fried their brains like can’t speak right or has Parkinson’s symptoms bad.
It seems like most of the ones that went really wild are stuck at the maturity level they were at when they started going really wild.

Yes. He lived through the woods from us. My mom found out we were meeting in the middle, just playing in the woods like normal 12 year olds. Moms was concerned that I would get in trouble with him, just like our older brothers did before. We never hung out after that. Dude's dad was an abuser. I saw him the summer he graduated, I could tell he was emotionally burned out. He told me he was gonna do something with himself. The next week he joined the Marines. I saw him 6 months later while he was on leave and I could tell he was better for leaving. He was KIA a few months later in Iraq. There's a memorial for him about 100 yards away where he told me he was going to do something with himself. I still wonder what might've been different for him if he'd had a friends house to go to within walking distance when we were 12.

Yep. Was a good friend during school but parents never allowed me to go hang out with him outside of school. Ended up becoming a drug addict and screwed his life up but man he was a lot of fun to cut up with at school. Definitely a bad influence though

They ended up on America's Most Wanted.

My parents were 1 for 1 in this scenario. The guy knocked up a girl at 17, got emancipated from minor status, dropped out of school, knocked up a different girl with pink hair, and now looks like a meth head

Exactly like my parents assumed they would.

Forbid? No but there were a couple they didn’t really approve of. One committed suicide and the other is doing ok.

From what I can tell is kids with a good home life and parents to guide them turned out fine even if they at one point had a wild steak or made dumb decisions.

Ones without a stable home never grew up or straightened out, mostly because they had little guidance and deep emotional issues. But on the flip side many “good” kids who had overbearing protective parents who never let them enjoy life or make their own mistakes turned out fricked up later on.

Not until my junior year of high school and honestly, at that point in my life I didn't give a frick what my parents said. I turned out all right and they did too although I did lose one great friend far too young.

Two are dead
One in prison
One whereabouts unknown


Thanks Mom