LOL, so I was raised in a Mormon home by a fuck of a father that thought I was too girly for asking to join my sisters for ballet lessons. He forced me to play all sorts of different sports, hunt, and other manly things like changing the oil on the car. He managed even to get my mom on his side and she hated him. They loved to show me the latest book they were reading to help them correct all of my bad behaviors. Use to wave them in front of me like my neurodivergent ass even understood what was going on. Its not strange that things have stayed the same since I was a kid in the 90s. Its just sad how they have to rehash the same stuff over and over again.
I felt the book thing. My mom was, and still kind of is, the stereotypical "autism mom" who had all the books, puzzle piece t-shirts, key rings, and all that jazz. Although, she was surprisingly supportive when I came out to her which I didn't expect considering how I was also raised in a very hyper conservative religious household, but I'll take any win I can get at this rate.
Glad you managed to pull a victory on that! My Mom and I are still on good terms amazingly enough. She still denies I am neurodivergent in any way, claims I am just a lazy human, and she was a perfect single mom raising her kids in the face of impossible odds. I sometimes feel like I dodge a bullet compared to what you had to deal with though. In the end tho my mom at least uses the right pronouns and name for me which is what keeps us on speaking terms.
Conservatives are so reactionary that they somehow convinced themselves that a boy being surrounded by a bunch of girls and usually being the strongest member to lift them is “gay”
Boomers and junior boomers sabotaged so many young people's social lives (and early romantic prospects) by forcibly removing them from "gay" situations that could have had very heterosexual outcomes.
LOL, so I was raised in a Mormon home by a fuck of a father that thought I was too girly for asking to join my sisters for ballet lessons. He forced me to play all sorts of different sports, hunt, and other manly things like changing the oil on the car. He managed even to get my mom on his side and she hated him. They loved to show me the latest book they were reading to help them correct all of my bad behaviors. Use to wave them in front of me like my neurodivergent ass even understood what was going on. Its not strange that things have stayed the same since I was a kid in the 90s. Its just sad how they have to rehash the same stuff over and over again.
I felt the book thing. My mom was, and still kind of is, the stereotypical "autism mom" who had all the books, puzzle piece t-shirts, key rings, and all that jazz. Although, she was surprisingly supportive when I came out to her which I didn't expect considering how I was also raised in a very hyper conservative religious household, but I'll take any win I can get at this rate.
Glad you managed to pull a victory on that! My Mom and I are still on good terms amazingly enough. She still denies I am neurodivergent in any way, claims I am just a lazy human, and she was a perfect single mom raising her kids in the face of impossible odds. I sometimes feel like I dodge a bullet compared to what you had to deal with though. In the end tho my mom at least uses the right pronouns and name for me which is what keeps us on speaking terms.
Conservatives are so reactionary that they somehow convinced themselves that a boy being surrounded by a bunch of girls and usually being the strongest member to lift them is “gay”
Boomers and junior boomers sabotaged so many young people's social lives (and early romantic prospects) by forcibly removing them from "gay" situations that could have had very heterosexual outcomes.
Or gay ones. Scary!
Gay is when effeminate, Straight is when you join the Navy
Hey, another exmormon here