“I know you better than yourself” my parents say like it didn’t take them 5 years and my therapist outing me to realize I was serious about liking guys x3

Dear parents, if you’re always romping around your house ranting about your convictions, your politics, your religion or your opinions of other people, your kids are NEVER going to be open and honest with you.

If you have ever told your kids “You can tell me the truth” and then proceeded to lose your shit when you heard the truth, your kids are NEVER going to be open and honest with you.

If you do this and you think your kids are just the sweetest, kindest and most obedient and well-behaved kids in the world, you’re DEFINITELY going to end up in a home.

As the years go by and I approach my {redacted}'s, I am frequently reminded of and learning of ways in which my parents were both smarter and stupider than I ever could have known.

My mom can accurately describe a dozen different behaviors that I expressed throughout my childhood that indicated add or autism or something, yet still she was (and still is) adamant that I am a perfectly normal human being. I can’t tell if she’s just trying to be supportive in her own dysfunctional way, or if she can’t accept that she produced a defective offspring. She is responsible for the quote “I don’t need a doctor’s permission to be weird”, and I fucking love that.