This somewhat infuriating rant by a man who took LSD to go on a rant about his parents is tough to follow. He talks about how his parents ’spoiled him’ by giving him $100,000.
Quaochu Yuan also known as ‘Magnificent Adult Baby’ on Twitter started this rant after taking a “medium dose of acid”. He claimed he wrote 35 pages over the course of 12 hours and still fluctuated between being sober and high.
"A few days ago I took a medium dose of acid and wrote for several hours straight and admitted some things to myself, mostly about money. Let's start here: the last august my mom gave me $100,000 for my birthday. I resented her for this and also suppressed the resentment."
a few days ago i took a medium dose of acid and wrote for several hours straight and admitted some things to myself, mostly about money
— Magnificent Adult Baby (@QiaochuYuan) July 15, 2021
let's start here: last august my mom gave me $100,000 for my birthday. i resented her for this and also suppressed the resentment
He further added,
“I learned that my feelings about money are intimately tied to my feelings about my parents. I went on to successfully avoid the topic again for several weeks. Then I had to move out of my group house,"
“You've been feeling social pressure to pretend like you have financial health that is entirely about your savings and your income, and it's just not true at all. The truth is that if you run out of money your parents would send you more because they love you."
in january i had the thought that i should "figure out money and career stuff" and then i proceeded to mostly avoid the topic, occasionally tentatively having feelings about it but not in a very satisfying way
— Magnificent Adult Baby (@QiaochuYuan) July 15, 2021
then i procrastinated on my taxes
The rant did not end there.
"The truth is that your finances aren't separate from your parents' finances and they never have been. You resent your mom for sending you $100,000 because she forcefully reminded you of this fact."
"and i don't want to tell my parents about my money situation because i don't want them to feel like they failed me"
— Magnificent Adult Baby (@QiaochuYuan) July 15, 2021
thinking that thought made me break into tears uncontrollably - like i want to clarify that this is rare for me, usually i can turn it off if i want to
"You feel like you were told by society that the way making a living works is that you do labor and are paid a fair wage for your labor and that's how you earn the right to exist and be a member of society. you feel guilty because you've never done this."
"the truth is that your finances aren't separate from your parents' finances and they never have been. you resent your mom for sending you $100,000 because she forcefully reminded you of this fact"
— Magnificent Adult Baby (@QiaochuYuan) July 15, 2021
"When I explain my current life circumstances to myself in a matter-of-fact way it does not look good. I literally have no job, no gf, no friends (in the sense of people I interact with IRL regularly), no community, no mission, no purpose, no team, no religion."
and i was like oh my god i'm literally harry fucking potter. i'm literally being protected by my parents' love in the form of money and i always have been. how incredibly embarrassing
— Magnificent Adult Baby (@QiaochuYuan) July 15, 2021
We’ll spare the rest of the tweets in the thread because it gets super long.
People however were more angry than sympathetic to his struggles. One user shared their childhood and adult financial struggles in a tweet.
The more I think about this thread the angrier I get. It's really a whole essay to make himself feel better about living off his rich parents as a grown ass man. I got £100 for my bday the other day & was incredibly surprised and grateful. Imagine crying about getting 100k lmfao
— caz! loki stan account! (@hijinkery_) July 16, 2021