but also shoutout to my parents for being cool geeks and understanding as well as encouraging me to have friendships online, without feeling the need to obsessively monitor and restrict my access to them or tell me that they were "not real friends"

i'm sure they did their fair share of looking out for me, but i'm still amazed that both of our sets of parents were able to talk and be cool with and arrange stuff like my internet best friend coming to visit me in middle school