19-year-old son finds out Mom goes into his room when he leaves for work, he installs a camera to get proof, then confronts her: ‘I'm moving to my dad’

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Bar Mor Hazut • Senior Editor
Apr 20, 2026 2:00 PM EDT

"Caught live on camera! Mom goes through her 19-year-old son's bedroom drawers."

When a kid older than 18 ends up still living with their parents in their childhood bedroom, a lot of lines tend to blur or get crossed. Many things that were relatively okay if they happened are no longer okay, now that the child is no longer a child, and many parents don't really flip that switch and start acting like their kid is actually a grown adult.

Confusing? It's also confusing for a lot of parents. Luckily, we have the perfect example for you of what a parent should not do.

The 19-year-old son in the story below lives with his mom. Every day when he leaves for work, he closes his bedroom door, and every time he comes back, he sees the door wide open. It wasn't long before he started suspecting his mom goes into his room and looks through his belongings while he is away.

Since his mom kept denying the accusations, the son decided to find a way to get proof. He installed a camera in his bedroom, which alerts him live whenever it detects movement. The son wasn't surprised that on the first day he set it up, he caught his mom going through his drawers, closet, and taking stuff from his desk.

When the son returned home and confronted his mom with the proof, she claimed that she had every right to go into her son's room in her own home. Now, setting aside her going through his belongings, which is not okay in any age, if he were 13, we might have agreed that she had business going into her son's bedroom. But that is a 19-year-old, grown adult we are talking about. A man who has every right to his privacy, and every right to be upset when his mom takes it away.

When the confrontation between the two came to an abrupt end, Mom told the entire family what happened, and they took her side. The son realized that he would never be able to change his mom's way, and decided to move out…

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  • AITA for installing a camera in my room to see if my mom is lying to me?

    I (19M) and my mom (49F) have had numerous fights the past few weeks. Most of which are on the same topic. That being her going into my room and looking around without me knowing.
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  • Basically, every time I would leave the house for work or anything else, I would always leave my door fully closed, but would come back to it open. Also, I would be incredibly positive that certain things had been moved around or straight up gone.
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  • So naturally, I'd ask my mom if she had gone into my room. She would always say no. Now, maybe the first couple times I could play it off and me forgetting to close my bedroom door. But once it stated happening multiple times a week, I knew that wasn't the case.
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  • So, yesterday I went out and bought one of those Bluetooth surveillance cameras. At this point, I was positive she was going in my room behind my back and then lying about it. I just say wanted proof, because I knew this would just continue happening otherwise.
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  • This morning, before I left for work, I made sure the camera was working, closed my bedroom door completely, then headed out. At around midday, I got a notification on my phone that the camera had
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  • detected some motion. So I pulled it up to view the recording. Wouldn't you know it, there was my mom going threw my drawers, closet, and desk. She was even grabbing certain things and tossing them out into the hallway. I
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  • closed the video feed seething, making sure I saved it first, and planned to confront her first thing when I was done my shift.
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  • When I got home, I immediately asked her if she had gone into my room. She said no. I responded by pulling up the video and holding my phone in front of me so she could see it. Instead of
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  • apologizing, she exploded. She screamed at me for installing a camera in her house without her permission. I responded by demanding an explanation for her going in my room. She insisted
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  • that she had a right to as my mother. She began questioning certain things in my room, to which I said it's none of her business.
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  • At this point I was done. I stormed off and went to my room. Within the hour, my phone started blowing up with messages from family, all siding with my mom, telling me I'm insane for putting up a camera. I kid you not, the entire
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  • family is on my moms side, except my dad. Unfortunately my dad can't stop this himself, as my parents split up a yeas ago and he isn't allowed in my moms house.
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  • I swear I'm doing nothing wrong here. Like, it's my only space in the house where I keep my things, relax, and do my own stuff. Or am I just completely out of my mind? AITA?
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  • I also don't pay rent. Update: Over the course of the week, I'm going to start moving things to my dads place. I'm also not telling my mom about it until everything is gone. I appreciate you all making me realize my mom was overstepping a lot.
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  • Yellow-Rose2790 Yikes. Bro move out
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  • Wayward Historian667 ΝΤΑ It's clear that your mom is spinning her version of events in order to release her hoarde of flying monkeys.
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  • brokemillionaire572 Can you move in with your dad?
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  • King Jake200 OP I absolutely can and that's probably what is going to happen.
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  • No-Algae-7437 Why did she lie before instead of invoking her "right to enter" as she did when confronted? She's hiding something and got caught.
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  • Professional-Age8384 Why don't you send the footage to everyone who sided with her? Then move out. NTA
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  • King Jake200 OP I ended creating a family group-chat solely so I could share the video to everyone. Unfortunately, I haven't gotten a single apology or "we were wrong" text, so I don't think it helped.
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