I'm actually writing over an old journal entry right now becaus i DONT want this to be on my front page.

My parents have known about this account for a long time... for years. They know how important DeviantART is to me... but now they check up on it every single day obsessively. They write me emails COMPLAINING about what I'm putting on here. They call me up to start fights over it, about how I'm "goofing off" by drawing instead of doing homework, filling out applications, etc, etc. YES, I'm going to be doing other things in my life, and YES, I will draw when I have the time. I CAN find a balance between work and play, and I'm not even submitting that much fan art anymore! I used to submit once or twice every single day, and nowadays it's hard for me to even submit once a twice a week! And then they harp on me for the few times I do get around to sacrificing a few hours of my life to have fun and draw a piece or two? They try to make it into a fight and it's pissing me off when they send me EMAILS about it too.

I feel like I'm constantly under a watchful eye. I could start submitting all my pieces as mature pieces so they they don't see, but I know they'll counter it by making their own DeviantART account just to watch me, and then i REALLY wont have any privacy. I would have to start an entirely new account from scratch and just note every one of my watchers about where I moved, and hope to god my parents don't ever find it.

Does anyone ELSE have a problem with their parents trying to monitor their DA account, or am I the only unlucky one who has control freaks running her life? I'm getting paranoid about posting stuff nowadays. I may ultimately end up moving to my alternate account (I can't link there, sorry. I'll give a hint though... the link is definitely somewhere on my front page at all times, though I don't have it labeled as such). I don't want to move, because I'm finally making a name for myself on this account, but I don't want to be paranoid about my parents seeing mny work anymore. I wish I coul dmake my entire gallery viewable to everyone BUT my parents' IP address. Oh if life were only that simple.

I'm not moving yet. But if this paranoia continues, it may seriously cross my mind.

-- EDIT: Oh yeah, and P.S. I'm 24 1/2 and living away from home (I'm in Chicago, IL, they're in Boca Raton, FL). You'd think by now my parents would trust my judgement. To all those who are 14 and hope that in 10 years your parents will finally lay off... There are a few of us it doesn't happen to. It really -SUCKS- being an only child.

Edit2: Because of the current problem of my parents stalking my account, I'm officially going Invisible (I hate doing it, but I have to, or else they'll know how late I stay up ever night, and they DO harp at me about that. A LOT, and it's gotten WORSE) and I'm hiding my Stats & Activity (they'll see who I socialize with, and what times of the day I do anything) (I wish I could only hide my "Activity", but unfortunately DA groups Activity and Stats together, so they're both going to be hidden). I'm really sorry to do this. I believe in people sharing their activity/stats and online/offline status to the world, but I'm so upset right now, I have to do this... at least until school is out.

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