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i know this really naive person and her parents shielded her from everything (and i mean everything) like she couldn't even watch Harry Potter because it was "too graphic" and this girl is so freaking blind she doesn't realize what she really has. she's straight and doesn't realize how easy it is for her, she spazzes really easily over small things and ignores the fact (if she's even aware of the fact) that some people have it a hell of a lot worse.
so today i flipped out at her at not only her lack of world knowledge but she refuses to learn a damn thing.

main piont: she doesn't realize just how great she has it, while all her rights were handed to her on a silver platter when she was born, we have to fight for basically everything we do. and she's too damn blind to even appreciate it! her parents friggin shielded her from all of everything.

and not only does she not realize how great her life is, this girl's almost 13 and she's not gonna survive highschool. she didn't know what a condom was until yesterday.

i was raised exposed to everything so i am the opposite of naive, i know what's out there, i can't stand her.

I was sheilded too. In a super-christian home. I turned out decent, I think gonk

I know what you mean. D: I didn't learn what a condom looked like until eighth grade. It was really embarrassing because our skills for living teacher had a protection poster or something on her wall with a bunch of colorful condoms, and I said I thought the blue ones looked tasty. Some girl I never really know came up to me and said, "Uhhh. Those are condoms dude."

Shielding Child FAIL. Dx

But yeah! O: I know what you mean. One of my friends has her nails professionally done every 2 weeks. She says it all casually, "Yeah I get them done every two weeks" as if she's saying "yeah I eat three meals a day." Then she goes on huge vacations like every year. It's like WOAH. It bugs me when she doesn't act like it's a big deal. I just wish she would act a little bit more thankful.

But I don't think LGBTs have to really fight for EVERYTHING. I'd understand if it was a rich v. poor thing, but LGBTs (especially in high school) don't really have anything on straight people besides bullying/hate/acceptance. I'm not saying that's not a big thing, but I don't know. Her sheltered life and LGBT rights seems so unrelated to me. At least we're in a democratic country and not in some third-world country. I think when we talk about sheltered people, it's important to remember the vast majority of us are actually very sheltered form the real world: real poverty, hunger, civil war, etc.

She's not much more sheltered than most of us when you look at the big picture. o:

I don't find that you exploded in front of her very appealing. The truth of the matter is that some parents are over bearing, over protective, negligent, uncaring, over worked, over religious. etc. Parents are parents and their role as parents is to do what they think is best for their child. Parenting is a whole different issue these day than it was back in the day.

Back in the day parenting had strict rules, because society was strict, these days society has become viscous and changing, some people are unable to change from the ways they were brought up and some people have issues adjusting to the current state of society.

Many of the sexual innuendos were taught to me by my friends who, literally pulled me to one side of the a lunch table and explained to me what the hell 'choking the chicken' meant and a few other things. I didn't understand why sucking on a lollipop a certain way was a suggestive action until I hit 16. My parents told me nothing about the sexual world. I learned it through my bio and health classes and my friends who knew. I didn't even open a condom package until last year when I was 21 out of curiosity. :/ I should have figured it wouldn't be the most pleasant looking thing if it says 'lubricated' on the package. But I knew what a condom was suppose to look like.

People like the girl you described is naive and she spazzes out with small minor details. You could have approached it differently, like ignoring her or just blatantly telling her "its not as bad as...." or "its nothing to freak out about. and here's why..." Many sheltered people don't know how to react to society outside of their sheltered world.

13 has always been an awkward age, she'll learn once she hits high school. High school is ruthless for picking at people. School at every stage is to establish their role in society, how to act in society etc. If she doesn't GET IT once she's graduated high school, then COLLEGE will rip her out of her shelter.

Very few people are sheltered in college.

She's 13. She's naive now, but she won't be once she's starts moving into the adult world. I had a friend who wouldn't say the word "sex" without mouthing it silently until this year. She's 22 now. :I

Just take a deep breath and know that High school or College will most likely "enlighten" her.

Solution:A quick b***h-slap,public highschool,and a laptop with internet access

Being shielded isn't a bad thing unless you refuse to learn anything when you get the opportunity (which seems to be the case). I was never really shielded, but at the same time, I seemed to magically miss a ton of information that everyone else always knew, like the perfectly cast comic relief character in a romantic comedy. gonk

So let me get this straight.... you're ragging on this girl because of something SHE HAS NO CONTROL OVER?! You know who else does that? Homophobes. That's right, you're a hypocrite. Congratulations! Way to totally act like a douche!