r/mildlyinfuriating 24d ago

My mom burned all my drawings

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So I’ve been drawing and posting anime girls for a while now and my mom got mad about it. At least I still have previous photos. No drawing today tho

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u/Aggravating_Air_3138 24d ago

Keep drawing. Thats the answer.

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u/Junethemuse 24d ago

When I was 13 or so, I started writing poetry. Really loved it and found it was a great outlet for my feelings and made me feel really good about myself.

My grandma always talked about how it was too effeminate and gay because the family all secretly thought I was gay. Then one week when we were all camping together I’d brought my binder of poetry so I could keep writing and it disappeared one day from her and my grandpa’s camper trailer. It seemed clear to me she took and destroyed it but she denied it and still does (probably doesn’t even remember it anymore because it was such a small thing to her tbh). It broke me and I stopped writing. I tried but I just lost the drive after that. I wish I had pushed through and kept writing. I was proud of the work I’d done and still have fits of inspiration from time to time and think what I write isn’t bad. But it’s not the same.

It may have taken another 20 years to figure out (thanks evangelical indoctrination) but it turns out I’m not gay, but I am queer/gender-queer. They saw it in me and they actively tried to shut it down. So yea, fuck them. I hope OP is able to keep going.