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Dear Momma and Papa,
I have decided to run away from home. At home recently I have been feeling as if I am being forgotten or not cared for. All you do is go into your room and leave me to play with my things by myself when I really want to play with someone. You say you love me, so why don’t you express it? I can tell that you just think of someone that you have to take care of, not someone who you like to play with or talk to. I feel like I’m a burden on your life and that makes me feel very sad and lonely. The reasons I ran away are I feel like you get along better without me, you’re always gone and doing your own thing, you barely ever communicate with me, and you never will play with me.
You guys always go into your own room and sit and read and just leave me in the house all alone. I feel like I am a stray dog on the road of loneliness, for the reason that you just leave me to sit and rot in my room all alone with all these toys but no one to play with. It feels as if I wasn’t here you wouldn’t notice the difference. How long did it take you to notice that I wasn’t here anymore? I bet it wasn’t immediately as it should have been. Were you just sitting in your room reading as you always are? Good parents would’ve known as soon as I set foot out of the house.
Yes, you are home sometimes but most of the time you just leave me at home to die of loneliness and boredom. I kept count this week of how many hours you just left me at home and that total is about 14 hours total, on average 2 hours a day. I know it doesn’t seem like much to you but to a lonely kid it’s like a lifetime. All these other kids and their parents spend so much time together playing and laughing and you’re just never here. It would be different if you had a job but you just go out and have fun with your friends and I’m here with no one except myself. If you would just try to put yourself in my shoes, just once, you would see how lonely it can get. With all this time to myself I have learned to care for myself. Scout’s dad is not home all the time but he actually makes an attempt to spend some time with her, unlike you he doesn’t just sit locked away in his room and read.
Whenever you are home (which is a major rarity) you never will have a conversation with me or just be nice with your words. For instance, a nice pair of parents would say “How was your day Son?” and they wouldn’t say “Go to your room and don’t pester us.” They also wouldn’t call me an “irregular son who just worries us.” So can you start to see how your words can be hurtful or very uncalled for, and how they just drag me down? If you would just learn how to speak to a young child like me you would get so much better at parenting. I just wish that you would just learn to talk to me like you would want your parents to talk to you. What if I was to talk to you the way that you talk to me? You would get very mad at me for disrespecting you. I feel very bad whenever you talk to me like that, it makes me feel worthless.
Whenever I play with my toys, yeah it’s fun for a while but it gets boring playing all alone. Some parents actually play with their kids. I start to think that I actually have friends to play with and then I remember nope, I’m all alone. If you would play alone you’d see how lonely it can get.
Thank you for reading my letter. I know that what I did was drastic but something had to happen to get me out of the house of sadness. Please don’t come to get me at Scout’s house. I like it here and they said I can stay for as long as I would like to. If you can’t realize I am very happy here and would like to live here for the rest of my life with my fiancée. I would also like to thank you for being very understanding that I am happy here and I feel welcomed. I also feel as if they love me as a child of their own even though I am not.
With Apologies,
Dill
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