Glad to hear you figured it out. I somewhat identify eventhough I didn't go as deep.

> if I did my homework before they got home they wouldn't believe me and would make me do some kind of schoolwork so they could see it happening, so basically for 4 years the majority of my free time was spent playing WoW and posting on 4chan.

Oh I hate this. Busywork. Also I think you and I got incentivized to play as much computer games as possible due to the arbitrary limitations of it and constant fear of being pulled off to some busywork. It was like a never ending battle ...

I think many parents don't realize that "doing the laundry" on command is like 10x the work of doing it when you please. You can't relax after school.