khimoc

something that's been really weird and really good for me as both an artist and a person is seeing people in the same line of work (especially people like me, in my particular minority groups) unapologetically and shamelessly tell the world how great they are. I grew up in a home where praise was pretty scarce. my mum was always pretty reserved, and my dad actively put me down, I guess to keep me in my place, so to speak. teachers praised how withdrawn I was, mistaking it for quietness and maturity beyond my age, but after becoming jaded to my high grades (and then later, disappointed by my failing ones as my various health problems to