Keeping my parents out!

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I guess I could offer a little rebellious side...

For your computer create a TrueCrypt folder. (Free download just google it)
This will encrypt a folder on your HD to store anything you want and requires a passcode to get in.

Just read the instructions CAREFULLY!

Also, get creative in hiding not preventing them from coming in...inside hanging clothes, or other odd places. If you lock them out...they think your hiding something.

nice thx for the ideas ihad some already, but ithink i like yours better

Also, place decoy personal items in obvious hiding spots. So when your parents find them (like under your mattress) they will stop searching for the real hiding spots.

My best hiding places:

- Inside books (for paper and stuff)
- Behind paintings (hang small stuff on string suspended from the hook behind it)
- Inside DVD cases (if you have a DVD box set, then you can hide stuff in the cardboard cases and put the actual DVDs elsewhere)

Yes, I have indeed seen too many movies.

I agree about the sanctuary. I sometimes feel pain when my parents enter my room, whether I'm there or just hear the floorboards. I tell them to get out or make hand movements shoving them out. My desk is situated so I have to stand or move so they can see me. I am now allowed to shut my door and my mum knocks though dad doesn't tend to, but they usually just pop around the door and don't come in.
I would suggest explaining that you don't like them coming in, to knock or give you warning to come out and talk if they want you, and that you want your stuff to be private. It worked for me

I am so lucky to have such an awesome Dad. >< I have a lock on my door, and if my mother freaks me out by messing stuff up in my room to the point where I get self-harm-y (scratches on my chest, start hitting myself on head), I can run to my Dad's office and hide. >> Sadly, mother won't stop moving my stuff drastically, or freaking me out, or whatever, even if I actually start causing myself to bleed, and am obviously having an Asperger's-caused episode-thing (start rocking, the self-harm stuff, generally just plain fall to the floor), but my Dad's really awesome about everything, so. ^^

I have no clue what advice to give you, except to try and communicate with at least one of them... I've seen you in a few forums, and it sounds like your parents aren't very understanding of your disorder. D: I'd try talking to them, I guess. =/ You could, for instance, show them a forum such as this with much evidence of just how obnoxious it is for some people to have their rooms messed with. It's sanctuary, and needs to be kept just so, or I, at least, am liable to go slightly batty. >> Good luck. ^^;''

As a former teenager, I can safely say that this advice is misguided at best, and ridiculous at worst. Why? Because when parents have their hearts and minds set on monitoring their teenage child, "sitting down and having a talk" will be a waste of time. If the parents have some decency, they might hear their child out, even if just for show. If not, they'll brush him/her off on the spot, or worse, punish him/her for "acting out". I tried it God-knows-how-many times, and it never worked. Trying to negotiate with my parents only backfired.

Sadly, there is no choice but to tough it out until high school graduation. Then go to college out of state as far from home as physically possible. Once there, the initial poster can finally breathe the clean, fresh air of freedom, after years of breathing polluted, stale air of captivity.

1. ignore willard, he is a griefer and a douche
2. go to your local library and pick up a book on locksmithing (They do have one, mine did)
3. get a chest or some other large continer and buy yourself a good combonation padlock and put your stuff in their. They can't poke though it!
4. might want to get a charlie bar, its like a club except for doors
5. just google how to hide pron and you will get excellent suggestions for hiding pron.
6. Use firefox, it has an option so when you close the browser, it erases the cache, history and all log in passwords.
7. Use proxies and tor if you are paranoid about this stuff.