[Question] What's the most stupid thing you have been grounded for (or the most stupidiest punishment)?

Is it wrong that I'm laughing at a lot of these? It just seems so... Neurotic...very glad to see I wasn't alone in this though. Weird and unwarranted punishments were my BPD mom's forte. Just a few that were common or especially strange (of course I thought these were all nornal at the time and that I was deserving of punishment) not in chronological order:

-woken up early and sent to sit alone in the basement all weekend, and often entire spring and Christmas breaks, and "sit there and think about what you did" because I stressed my mom out by speaking back to her (questioning strange rules or hurtful comments). This was pretty common. Parents would do fun things with my brother and laugh really loud like they're having a blast and say "where's hot Daniel? Have you seen her?" "nope! No stress today! " -having my glasses taken away and forced to go to bed anywhere from 1-6 pm because i didn't want to play outside at the age of 16, or as a punishment for anything really, this was a big one. Parents would sneak up to look in on me and if I was reading, I was punished further and the book was taken away and never to be seen again. -light bulbs and door frame removed for above reason -often during these early bedtimes I was forced to sleeping pills/gravol to induce sleep so my mom could have a "real" break from me, despite protests that I wasn't sick and didn't want meds. -not allowed to stay up and finish homework, rather sent to bed with the gravol and told to set an alarm for 4/5am to complete homework. (huge anxiety trigger is leaving things to the last minute so I would often be up all night worrying or trying to do my homework in the dark) -accused of faking my depression for attention, told to act happy so people don't get suspicious of my parents. Told parents I didn't want to live anymore and had a fleeting, scary moment of suicidal ideation, they laughed at me and acused me of just trying to get out of school. -as soon as I was legally able to get a job, I was to get a job. After applying everywhere with no results I was sent to ride on my dad's city bus with him (his job) for 8 hour shifts each weekend, often starting at 4am, to motivate me to look harder. Once employed, if i had the weekend off I was still sent to ride the bus for the day because I obviously wasn't pushing for shifts hard enough. -if I stressed out my mom (it didn't take much) she would trash my room, throw everything I owned on the floor in a pile and send me to bed, not allowed to clean up the mess, because she knew it spiked my anxiety. Would not tell me about plans or what I'd be going the next day because she knew it spiked my anxiety. -made to eat oatmeal or beans for dinner instead of whatever she made for the fam, as punishment for eating too much or eating the food that my mom liked (even tho there was often nothing else to eat) -sent to kneel in the corner for what felt like hours, with hands on my head, as old as 17, at one point missing half of a grade 12 exam for stressing her out and made to kneel longer for protecting. I begged the teacher not to tell CAS but really really wished inside that he would. -had a tech guy hack into my fb and was watching everything I did online for God knows how long and being punished for things they suspected I did or infered online that I did, ie skipping (which I did once in four years) -mom would sometimes choose my clothes for the day if she was pissed, would choose embarrassing clothes on purpose like floral turtlenecks and pink corduroys for a 16 y/o

Tl;dr, Damn my parents were messed. Also, don't laugh at the kid in the ugly clothes at school, she may just have a borderline mother.

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