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It's getting personal.

Unlike many other users on Quora, I don't intend on trolling and rage-baiting. I intent on delivering quality contents. Yet people won't follow me, upvote me at all, and I just keep getting blocked by other users whom I haven't even had an interaction with. People just treat me like a criminal. I don't even remember being nasty. I don't know what else to do anymore to earn a better reputation on that site.

I became an orphan today — not because my parents passed away, but because I finally walked away from them for good.

For the last few years, my parents have been taking advantage of me. I work 80-hour weeks, barely home except to sleep. I’ve never been a troublemaker — I just grind nonstop trying to build a better life.

For context, I’m 28, and I’ve been working since I was 18 — mostly in banking, and now working overnight shifts at a hotel. I’ve always worked. Always tried to move forward.

A few years back, my parents told me they were going to help me get into a house. The deal (at least as it was explained to me) was that it would basically be mine eventually — something I could work toward and build equity in.

So I pushed myself harder than ever, believing that all my effort was leading somewhere.

They bought the house… and then everything changed.

Suddenly I was just a tenant. They started charging me $1,800+ a month in rent. Mind you, I’m barely even there. On top of that, they started treating me horribly. The whole dynamic shifted.

Then when I finally started making good money — when things were actually starting to look up for me — they completely changed the story and said:

“We never agreed to that. Go find your own apartment.”

I was crushed.

And here’s the worst part: this wasn’t the first time. They did this to me with two different houses.

They do very well financially, and they’ve done similar things to my sisters — except with them, there are actual leases and agreements. With me? They always refused to put anything in writing. Just their word.

And like an idiot, I trusted that my parents had my best interests at heart.

Eventually I hit my breaking point. I left and got my own apartment.

Only after I left did they suddenly switch up again and say:

“You can stay, no rent, just save money.”

But by that point, the damage was already done. I couldn’t trust them anymore.

Today, I went back and got the last of my stuff. That was it. Done.

And as if that wasn’t enough, they pulled one last move. They convinced me to take my name off a car I had been paying on for 6 years. Today, they reported it stolen and had it taken away. Now they plan to sell it and keep the money.

At this point, it doesn’t even feel real.

For context, I’ve been paying my parents rent since I was 15 years old. My dad always provided financially, but he was never really a father figure. No guidance, no support — just expectations and transactions.

I’ll be honest — I haven’t been perfect. I’ve been disrespectful at times, and I’ve said harsh things. But it came from the constant betrayal and how much it’s been weighing on me. I’ve acknowledged my mistakes and apologized for my behavior.

They never have.

They don’t even acknowledge that they hurt me. Instead, they’ve been telling the rest of my family that I’m a drug addict (I smoke weed) and that it’s made me unreasonable and violent.

Now I’m completely on my own. No parents, no real support system, no social life — just work. I’m exhausted all the time, and honestly, I feel lost. Sometimes it feels like all I do is work and exist.

I keep asking myself:

Why don’t parents love their kids like they’re supposed to?

I could never imagine doing this to someone — especially someone working this hard just trying to build a life.

What messes with me the most is I see people around me who are doing everything wrong — getting into trouble, not trying — and their parents would never treat them this way.

So yeah.

Today I became an orphan by choice.

And I don’t know if I feel free yet.

Right now, I just feel… empty.

The site seems to consist of illiterate questions about how great Trump is, usually with an idiotic boast which makes no sense.

Are these real?

I’m probably going to delete the app because of this repetitive nonsense but before I do I’d like to know if these are just pure bait questions

I clicked on a quora post about money-making to see the answers and I noticed the 2nd response was a picture of someone's poop. Thought it was a weird response to someone else's unrelated post, scrolled past it. Then I saw another picture of poop, I got a little weirded out. By the 4th time, I started noticing a pattern, especially because the 4th post, or may I say I finally noticed they were ADS, had like 20 pictures of people's poop. At that point I had no idea what was going on and decided to click on not interested and the poop "ads" that were showing every 2 posts disappeared. Did something similar happen to one of y'all? What on earth propped the quora algorithm to pull that on me? 🥲

They usually pop up together whenever I ask a question in google.