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Worst is when you realise so many others have the same passion, but they are misogynistic assholes about it so I can't really enjoy it anymore...

My proudest moment as a teacher in my career so far was when one of my grade 9 girls quietly confessed to me that she liked K-pop, and that people had made fun of her for it.

Coincidentally, I had done some teaching in Korea, and loved it. So, I excitedly said (at a nerdily loud volume) "I LOVE K-POP!!"

She didn't believe me at first, but eventually did when I named my favourite bands/songs.

She looked so happy! I told her that even if no one else thought so, we both knew each other were cool 😎

Don't ever let anyone shit on your enthusiasm, kids. Your interests are part of who you are, and it's not ok to make fun of that.

Let your freak flag fly, and you'll be a much happier person.

And to anyone who has ever been discouraged from their interests: I'm sorry you went through that, it's not OK. It's never too late to get back into it, whatever it is. And I will know you're cool 😎

Curious about "most basic"....?

Family? Yes, my siblings and my dad are assholes about stuff like that.

I always had to hide the fact that I like to draw at home.

First because I was doing kinda cringy anime drawings and didn't want the ridicule, but at some point I actually got pretty good in a "classical art" sense. I couldn't let my family find out even more after that, because my mother had already claimed drawing as "her thing". She would have been absolutely awful to me due to jealousy (because that's exactly what happens every time).

She wasn't even good at it, she just traced designs from the Internet because she has never been willing to take the critique & feedback that is necessary to actually become good at art. Her stuff literally looked like AI art nowadays, completely soulless and disinterested. She was always just after the praise of having drawn something, no matter the integrity of her work.

At least it was easy to hide my interest. I'm still baffled how people can be such control freaks but also care so little? Like they found my graphic tablet in the back of my closet at some point, but totally accepted the excuse of "oh that's just a thing to digitally sign pdfs"

Absolutely, and it was uncomfortable trying to invert that concept especially in an unfamiliar setting like first dates and such.

Lol I pretended so hard to have boring, respectable tastes that I actually grew an appreciation for things like classical and opera at a really young age.

Or that others would take an obsessive, invasive interest in it that sucks the joy of of it.

Thank you for understanding me.

I loooove having hobbies. Unfortunately I can't make a lot of them part of my identity or try and perform them publicly cause if my family catches wind of it it'll suddenly become my least favorite thing to do.

I remember playing an anime game on my phone in high school, and this one classmate made fun of me for it. Not because of anime, he already knew I watch them and didn't (seemingly, at least), care one way or the other. But because the game has a hub-like area where the characters are shown in a chibi design. He kept pestering me after that to try out Barbie games.

The "best" part? Dude literally said the game looked fun when he saw me playing the actual gameplay, and even asked me to let him play a round. Then the round ended, saw the hub, and he did a 180 on me and on the game.

To this day I don't feel comfortable watching certain anime in public. I'm not even talking about ecchi here. Just basically any stuff that is "girly".

Kids in my sons junior high school are unapologetic weirdos now and are embraced for it. Normies watch anime.

Contrast when I was in high school and you were called homophobic slurs for liking Star Wars or reading manga. Bizarre times indeed.

I don’t even have weird interests. I don’t want people to talk to me. Reduce the attack surface, you know.

It depends on how stupid your interests are.

Normal is defined, in this case, as what the majority of people experience. As opposed to what the majority of people think everyone else is experiencing. Meaning it's normal to be ridculed by your family for trying to be yourself.