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The original was posted on /r/maliciouscompliance by /u/Additional_Guitar_85 on 2024-04-01 04:17:14.

My (male) hair got quite long when I was in my senior year of high school. In a pearl-clutching southern town, this got me a fair amount of flack, but the worst was from my dad. He’d always been kind of a tyrant, and his anger was unbearable in my later teens, so I avoided him as much as possible around the house. One day he decided he’d had enough of my long hair, so he walked behind me with scissors and snicked them menacingly. I jumped up and snapped at him and he shouted back something to the effect of, “If you’re living under MY roof, you’ll follow MY rules!”

So the next day while he was at work I moved out. I didn’t even say “bye.” Living in my own apartment while in high school was fun and had some perks. When I skipped class, the school would call my apartment to tell me, “Your child was not at school today” Lol.

Edit: he didn’t actually cut my hair. Also, the fallout was that he was a lot better to be around from then on. I think he realized that if he wanted to have a relationship with his son, he was going to have to not be such a you-know-what