she hated my queer furry art and threatened to delete everything, was super intrusive towards me and my privacy, and gave me severe religious trauma cuz of the Jehovah's witness bullshit
I feel happy being away from that in some sense. although It's still hard living with her
i had a somewhat similar experience growing up as a JW :-( my dad was super strict and i had to hide everything about myself… JWs are absolutely awful and i hope the religion dies off someday
I'm trying to find my way out to truly thrive, it's just hard when my folks who I live with make things harder for me especially as a disabled person. I'm glad I am making art but it sure is hard
Yooo, ex JW here too. My parents are still puritanical and only barely tolerate my shenanigans. I have to bury a LOT of myself to avoid conflict. Still get a spike of anxiety passing by a kingdom hall...
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Fucking JEHOVAH's i swear to god, i have a -long- tradition of politely dissecting their faith whenever they approach me in public. Now - i happen to be very empathetic and respectful when discussing faithsystems, as well as more read up on theirs than they are used to -
so they're always very caught off-guard when i start talking to them, especially when i look like the way i do, i dont think they hold punks in very high regard lol.
Anyways i like to think of it as my way of planting little seeds of Self-reflection in there for them.
My aunt dates an ex-witness and he is a complete sweetheart, he got out of the witnesses because he loves music too much, especially Jazz? And he couldnt reconcile all the weird religious stuff about art ultimately, i know he suffers from the ex-communication really badly at times..
I guess it's kind of a way to reclaim all that joy you were denied for so long, yeah? A way to say "no fuck you actually, I deserve to be happy & I'll make it so."
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i feel for you gang, so many religious crackheads bro
I feel happy being away from that in some sense. although It's still hard living with her
Fucking JEHOVAH's i swear to god, i have a -long- tradition of politely dissecting their faith whenever they approach me in public. Now - i happen to be very empathetic and respectful when discussing faithsystems, as well as more read up on theirs than they are used to -
Anyways i like to think of it as my way of planting little seeds of Self-reflection in there for them.
Proud of you :)