I’m just scared of the consequences of leaving. Every time I leave my neighbourhood, my parents lecture me about the consequences & that it’s dangerous out there, that i might get robbed/killed. They even blamed me for giving them covid when they had a teeny cough on the same day I went on a walk in the downtown of a suburb.

I can’t just tell my parents, “well, I’m going to Mexico. See ya!” and expect it to go ok. They’re gonna pull every trick in the book to stop me, & they’re persistent as hell.

Going to another country, hell even downtown Toronto, is not something I might be able to do immediately. I’d need to ease them into it, if that’s even possible. It’s just whenever I make big strides, the government locks down harder, forcing me to start from square one.