Basically I use Discord for things like being in servers related to games I play and art and my Parents don’t like me using anything to talk to strangers due to the dangers obviously even though I know what to look out for and wouldn’t get myself into any danger on purpose and that being on Discord helps me Distract myself from Bad Anxiety.

But Ive never told them I use Discord as Ive made great friends either 2-3years older or younger then me who cause nothing bad to happen to happen and aren’t anyone suspicious or creepy and that I wouldn’t want to loose those friends as in real life Ive struggled a-lot to make friends or to be social in the past and that Ive been able to learn about the games I like to play through others people who play the same games.

Ive been told to stop before when being caught a couple times and I tried but I couldn’t because of the friendships I had made and now that I’m 18 I feel like Im a responsible young adult and that my parents should trust me when using Discord.

Im just scared that if I told them I could loose everything on Discord even though its a positive thing that I use Discord for things I like and it could help me improve on skills for me like art for example.

Even considering just opening up to my parents about all this just so I wouldn’t have to hide anything as the whole reason I joined Discord was due to bad Social anxiety over the years and it helped me get through l a-lot of things.

I tend to get very bad anxiety about this to the point I feel sick when talking to my parents about these types of things as I have no idea on how they would respond or react causing me feel more nervous.

And I basically have no idea how to cope with the Anxiety when telling my parents about this as I know it will be alot to handle emotionally.