*reads above posts* Why are parents such horrible bastards? That said, I had a friend who cut once and immediately went crying to her mother and told her all about it. Her parents were soo lovely...
I have the questionable advantage of my mother's being partially sighted, so I'd been walking round the house for months in short sleeves or whatever and she had no idea. This bitch of a teacher in school told her though, and she didn't understand at all (she is really quite thick and has very few emotions - and you're not allowed emotions in our house in any case). She just kept going on about how I mustn't do it and certainly no one must find out, or else I'd be locked up in a mental hospital. Think my brother overheard though. :S She's never mentioned it since, but I did find a letter to a place to where I had to disclose medical conditions; she decided to add to what I'd written (ie nothing, but she didn't know that) by explaining that I'd had "one minor incident of deliberate self harm", but that this had "only happened once and never will again". There's just no comprehension in her mind. I would advise anyone NOT to let their parents have any way of knowing, even if they think it might go well...
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