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wolff242:

--- Quote from: ferraroso on August 15, 2023, 07:28:26 pm ---I don't remember my parents ever forbidding me from watching/reading anything.
The advantages of being born in a family of Socialist Atheists I guess? Haha

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Pretty much the same here. There were a couple movies I wasn't allowed to watch until I was older (When I was 7-8 I couldn't watch certain movies like Cat People or Risky Business, but by the time I was 13 it was fine, lol) Actually, those are the only 2 I recall being told I had to wait on (Themes were incest and prostitution)

Cartagia:
I saw Full Metal Jacket when I was 6, if that gives you any idea.

randomstranger:
I don't remember many things explicitly forbidden. They didn't allow me to watch non-age appropriate stuff unsupervised, like The Terminator at age 6, but other than that, I was free to consume any type of media available. I could also play violent games, like Carmageddon and Mortal Kombat 4, because unlike most people, they thought games to be less harmful/disturbing than movies.

kamikazekeeg:
My mom was religious, dad not so much, but my mom never really fell into the "That's evil" side of things.  I specifically remember getting a birthday card for a friends party, saying to not bring toys like "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles", because they were mutants and that is somehow evil.  My mom thought Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles were cute lol 

So I didn't have too much stuff that was off limits.  She of course wouldn't really want me watching too violent and horrific of stuff, normal parent things, but never outright saying "That's off limits" for things that aren't really a problem.  I'd watch a lot of tv with my dad, so I saw like Terminator 2 and Jurassic Park, and other movies and shows on TV, which was normal cable, so abit edited, but she didn't seem to mind that a ton that I remember, though there are probably a few things she probably regrets letting me watch with him lol

tripredacus:
The only thing that really sticks out was actually video games. I did not have any at home until around 1993 when I got a computer. Before that time I had a NES at my dad's house and spent time playing video games at friends houses. I did not have a video game console at home until I bought a Saturn.

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