so who else gets irrationally afraid and embarrassed about their interests being known to people in real life
#i’m not embarrassed but#i hate the thought of having to guard what i love#and defend any of my interests to others#people are the worst i don’t want them to know me
I call this “residual anxiety from being bullied for everything that made me even slightly unusual every day in junior high.”
reblogging again because
Or having your interests ridiculed or dismissed by your family.
For decades.