@wikkedstorm and I can’t really tell you why I have the feeling…. Like, I feel— genuinely feel it in my core— that the things that excite me these days should be hidden. I feel ashamed of my passions and hobbies these days. I wonder if that has to do, in part, with being shamed for being interested in things when I was younger out of fear of it being “the devil.”
Anyways, sorry to go on a tangent here lol. Mastodon has become my persona journal.
@wikkedstorm …but things as simple as Pokémon, Harry Potter were the devil and not allowed in the household. Shit, I couldn’t even go trick or treating because even that is too evil. So, as I grew up I found that all my interests (Pokémon, heavy metal music) needed to be hidden and away from sight.
Is it no wonder that now, in my older age, all my current passions and hobbies I’m afraid of sharing it with ANYONE? Parents, friends otherwise?