AITA for “performing” in front of the camera my mom forced me to have in my room?

[u/Xtwa]

I'm a 17-year-old guy, and my mom has always been a bit overprotective. Recently, she took it to the next level by insisting on putting a surveillance camera in my room "for my safety." I found it super invasive and uncomfortable, but she wouldn't take no for an answer.

So, in an act of defiance, I decided to jerk off right in front of the camera every day for a week. I figured if she wanted to invade my privacy, she'd have to deal with the consequences. I made sure to look directly into the camera, making it clear that I knew it was there and I didn't care.

After a week, my mom came to me, furious. She had finally watched the footage and saw what I'd been doing. She said she was absolutely disgusted, and yelled at me for being disrespectful and said I was acting like a child. I told her that if she wanted to invade my privacy, she had to be prepared for what she might see. She took the camera down immediately, but now she's giving me the silent treatment and acting like I'm the bad guy.

My dad thinks I went too far, and I think he secretly finds it funny, but he also agrees that having a camera in my room was too much. My sister won’t even talk to me anymore after my mom told her what I had done, but my friends think it's hilarious and say my mom got what she deserved. I'm not sure how to feel. AITA?

[u/A_Pie323]

Yes mothers do livestream their infants, it’s called a baby monitor. Haha, sorry I couldn’t help myself.

[u/gavinkurt → u/A_Pie323]

It’s normal. It can save the mother a trip to the bedroom when they can just check the camera and make sure the baby looks fine. A lot of mothers do this.

[u/A_Pie323 → u/gavinkurt]

No I know it’s normal, I was joking 🙃I felt like you forgot the word for baby monitor. But as I’m sure we both know, that’s completely normal but live streaming a 17 year old is beyond messed up, IF this story is even true

[u/gavinkurt → u/A_Pie323]

If a parent is putting a camera in a 17 year olds bedroom, that is just too much. The story might not be fake. There are crazy parents out there. I knew a girl who had her bedroom door removed by her crazy religious extremist adoptive parents. She ended leaving by at 16 because of it. She refused to go back to them and lived with her boyfriend that she stayed with for 7 years until they broke up. At least she had somewhere to go and she worked the whole time she had been on her own and did complete high school on time. Her parents were so religious that they didn’t give her an issue leaving because she told them that she didn’t want to be “saved” by Christ. She lived in an orphanage in Russia when she met her future adoptive parents. She told me the orphanage was better than living with her adoptive parents even though the conditions at the orphanage weren’t that great but the orphanage did provide her with a roof over her head, a decent education, food. She even said if she knew that her future adoptive parents were going to be religious extremists who would take her bedroom door, she would have preferred to just stay at the orphanage.