squishlez
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I'm a minor who’s a high school drop out, so I of course live with my parents. I have a cockatiel that I love dearly who hangs out with me constantly. My parents however, don't seem to care about their safety as much as I do.
My parents (mainly my stepdad) have the entire house filled with all sorts of plug in air fresheners. They are in almost every hallway, just about every single room (with the exception of mine) & they refuse to listen to my concerns whatsoever. My stepdad has one of the automatic spraying ones because we have ferrets that smell, except he has it in the room directly underneath mine. My room has a floor vent that leads directly to the room underneath. He also sprays cologne to the point where I can literally taste it every time he gets ready to go to work (which is almost every day) & nobody will listen to me when I try to bring it up.
Does anyone know how I could get them to listen to me? They always tell me that I'm overreacting & that it won't actually cause harm but I don't think I am? My bird is very important to me & it makes me really upset that they seem to think their house smelling like chemicals everyday is more important than the wellness of my bird. I'm hoping that the vet may be able to convince them? But at this point I don't even know. I used to take batteries out of the spray ones but my stepdad realized this & gets mad at me when I do it now. I set all of their plugins to low everytime I see them set to anything else but I know deep down it isn't enough. I'm honestly debating just removing the little blue light in all the plugins that tells you when it's running low so they stop replacing them because I really don't know what else I can possibly do.
I'm just tired of feeling like I'm somehow in the wrong here, I just want my bird to be happy & healthy. Am I really in the wrong or are they just making me feel like I am?
anyways, thanks for reading
My parents (mainly my stepdad) have the entire house filled with all sorts of plug in air fresheners. They are in almost every hallway, just about every single room (with the exception of mine) & they refuse to listen to my concerns whatsoever. My stepdad has one of the automatic spraying ones because we have ferrets that smell, except he has it in the room directly underneath mine. My room has a floor vent that leads directly to the room underneath. He also sprays cologne to the point where I can literally taste it every time he gets ready to go to work (which is almost every day) & nobody will listen to me when I try to bring it up.
Does anyone know how I could get them to listen to me? They always tell me that I'm overreacting & that it won't actually cause harm but I don't think I am? My bird is very important to me & it makes me really upset that they seem to think their house smelling like chemicals everyday is more important than the wellness of my bird. I'm hoping that the vet may be able to convince them? But at this point I don't even know. I used to take batteries out of the spray ones but my stepdad realized this & gets mad at me when I do it now. I set all of their plugins to low everytime I see them set to anything else but I know deep down it isn't enough. I'm honestly debating just removing the little blue light in all the plugins that tells you when it's running low so they stop replacing them because I really don't know what else I can possibly do.
I'm just tired of feeling like I'm somehow in the wrong here, I just want my bird to be happy & healthy. Am I really in the wrong or are they just making me feel like I am?
anyways, thanks for reading
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