I’m trying not to engage much with the parents as well, unless their situation is very similar to mine (ex. if they’re Autistic with an Autistic child). Reason being, just as you said, they tend not to stick around. It feels like most of them are here not to get advice, but rather just to complain about their circumstances.
It sounds like the downvoting obviously brought you down. I’m sorry to hear that, because the way I look at it, you’ve done a lot of positive on this site. It’s important for us to have a variety of different voices, and the fact that you are younger than most here and not a parent means you have a very unique voice that we need. I hope you can consider that before deleting your account.
On the other hand, breaks can be very necessary, I understand that. I actually took a break from the internet for a few days last week because I was feeling down and I know I’m not going to get any positives out of social media when I’m already in a depressed mindset.
