Thread:Ursuul/@comment-29771477-20170822012948/@comment-28083312-20170822110900

so I did what I thought my dad might want me to. I worked really hard to stop breathing hard (and actually succeeded for once, I think?) and then I put on a bunch of clothes and swallowed a bunch to make my voice sound normal-ish, and then a pulled on a hat and pulled it way down my face and tried to act like I was just tired. If that’s something your dad would want you to do, want you to hide that you’ve been beaten for appearances, then he has his priorities so messed up that I cannot even begin to list all of the things that’s wrong with his judgment & the situation itself. That’s exactly the wrong way to react, because people can’t help you if they don’t know there’s a problem (that said, it seems like several people you mentioned could tell anyway even if they didn’t know the source). As for your phone security; there is a way to keep it, & your privacy intact while giving your mom your phone password. There are certain free browsers out there (Such as SecretApps) which come with a secondary lock on them, & that password can be different. Download a bunch of apps you don’t need that are low-memory, organize them all into folders on your phone, & put the locked browser in a random one, & keep your main browser easily visible. Use your main browser for youtube or whatever, & use the locked browser to go to instagram or twitter or whatever. For added security you can clear the browser history of the locked browser every day so that even if it is found, & you give up the password to it, it’ll appear empty & unused. Then, you can have a third password for all of your online accounts, but never actually visit them with your phone on the main browser, so your mom can’t even find them to demand your password to them, it will be like they don’t exist (if you don’t know about something then you cannot demand to see it). Two more drastic things you could do is download free VPN (I can help there), or if you use apps to get on social media (twitter app, instagram app), then you can delete the apps every time you get home, & redownload them when you leave, although that’ll eat through your data rapidly. All that said, I’m sorry you’re even having to deal with this & I hope you can get through it ok :(