#growing up homeschooled

[anakintwinkletoes]

✨ Christian Homeschooled Kid Aesthetic™ ✨

#homeschool #homeschooled kid #christian kid #growing up christian #growing up homeschooled #nostalgia #christian kid nostalgia #adventures in odyssey #andy griffith #chickfila #awana #abeka books #veggie tales #little house on the prairie #weird kid #pick me girl #not like other girls #evangelical aesthetic #only the real ones know

[anonymous-witness777]

The best compliments I've received-- "your writing makes me want to worship God more" "your work reminds me of the Bible; it has a surety to it" "I love how there's always a latent apocalypse behind your writing" "hearing that was a spiritual experience" -- all center on a quality in my writing which I believe is due to gifts given me in childhood. What some call Religious Fundamentalism -- whether it is or not, depends on where you're standing.

It is knowing that Jesus could return tomorrow. It is knowing that heaven and hell are real. It is cutting all the skeletons and Harry Potters out of the LEGO catalogue. It is wondering if that sound in your humidifier is a demon. It is praying for everyone to be saved. It is hearing your father pray in the language of angels every morning. It is your mother singing in tongues and then translating for you, all to tell you that Jesus loves the little children. It is Larry Norman and Phil Keaggy and Barry McGuire on the stereo. It is the experiential knowledge that miracles happen, that legs regrow and tumors shrink. It is prayers for sweet dreams each night, prayers when you go to sleep happily and prayers when you wake up from nightmares. It is rebuking demons on Halloween after you give candy to the Spider-Man at your door. It is the red songbook with the Jesus fish on the cover, with To God Be the Glory and Turn Turn Turn. It is Prayer Bear and VeggieTales and The Donut Man, it is GT and the Halo Express and Adventures in Odyssey. It is Young Earth, the pterodactyls flying above cowboys; it is Old Earth, the Big Bang bursting into void as Hugh Ross tells us what it means.

And now there's been some changes -- I've lost belief in Mokele-Mbembe, but gained at least a healthy agnosticism about Santa. I no longer consider Harry Potter inherently Satanic, but now consider A Voyage To Arcturus inherently Satanic. There's a give and take. But I stand on the same warm earth, rich with the promise of heaven and the pity of hell. Jesus is firm; that doesn't surprise me. What surprised me is all else that has stayed: the hippieness and fierceness and end-times-ness and the traditional and the subversive. Jesus Christ is the same yesterday today and forever, but even my childhood he has let me keep. At least in parts. And it strikes out like lightning on occasion from my words, and it isn't me, not really, it's my mother with her lilting lullaby voice that all the same spoke of heaven and hell and blood and martyrdom and love like consuming fire. It's she who planted these flowers which grow round the spokes of the wheel whose hub is God.

#growing up homeschooled #homeschooled #childhood nostalgia #christian kid nostalgia #homeschooled kid #growing up christian #i miss my mom #christiancore #pentecostal #end times

[purple-mothman-majesty]

POV: You're an asexual who grew up sheltered, homeschooled and didn't know that sexual attraction existed, so basically now you're in your twenties unaware of things people usually find out in middle school, but you're only just now figuring it all out as an adult, who's generally repulsed by that kind of stuff anyway and it's all so baffling and in the past year or so you learned that people enjoy having someone, er, ride their face, and that, ahem, fluids are involved during intercourse and that no, oral sex is not when you kiss with tongue. And um, you may or may not have just recently found out that gay people have sex too which is great but like I should have known that before now and and an–

#please tell me I'm not the only one #send help #lgbtqia+ #lgbtq #queer #asexual #ace #asexuality #homeschooled #growing up homeschooled #growing up ace #growing up sheltered #my shenanigans

[sailforvalinor]

See homeschooling is great but one of the downsides that they don’t talk about is that when you eventually go to college, you’re suddenly exposed to all the viruses you should have caught in elementary-through-high school and then you get them all at once

#I pretty much plan for getting two debilitating colds a semester at this point #college problems #homeschooling #growing up homeschooled #college

[with-vorpal-sword]

*friends talking about hannah montana*

me: haha yeah my mom wouldn't let me watch it because there was romance in it that included kids my age

friend: That explains a lot actually.

...

other friend: wait so ARE you asexual??

#growing up homeschooled #be like #!!!! #jb posts

[edscuntyeyeshadow]

shoutout to the bitches who grew up in environments where the only kind of sex ed available was abstinence-only, and thus had to learn via fanfiction. love y’all, hope you’re doing okay

#growing up homeschooled christian fundie in a red state was hell on earth #fanfiction #me #ex religious #exvangelical #queer #growing up religious

[connieaaa]

I'd like to find every person in my life who told me "you'll miss being a kid", and "being a kid is the best time of your life, enjoy it" and tell them all off. No, I do not miss being a kid. Being a kid sucks.

#cptsdsurvivor #dysfunctional family #dysfunctional parents #bad parenting #narcissist parents #actually autistic #actually neurodivergent #actually ace #oldest child #child neglect #bad parents #parental abuse #parentification #parentified child #generational curses #covert narcissism #maternal narcissism #childhood medical neglect #religious homeschooling #growing up religious #religious parents #child rights

[jordankennedy]

the web is sooooo super overbearing helicopter parent to me

#so is the eye but the eye is more just like. they know every time you screw up but they never punish you bc the fear is in the threat #the dark is like. classic religious fundie homeschool parent. no pokemon or harry potter cause it’s devil worship #the vast is one of those parents that you grow up thinking is fun and cool and lets you get away with anything #then one day you wake up like ohhh. that was child neglect

[conceptofjoy]

Same person from earlier since u didn’t think I was totally insane here’s another fun anecdote about my childhood - I used to make my mom take me to the butcher and then look at the butcher with the plaintive eyes of a child and say can I have some organs please (I wanted to look at them and investigate their inner workings) whenever we had dinner I would give fun facts about the biology of the animals we were eating. Everyone hated that. One time my mother also found me trying to kidnap a chicken from the park so that I could feed it to a tiger at the zoo later that day (my zoo obsession). I was also extremely popular at the hospital for my odd demeanor I was there a lot because my dad was sick (he’s good, don’t worry) and they would let me pretend medical malpractice with them (they let me take people’s stitches out and would come to my dad’s room and pull out tumors and be like look what I look out of someone. do you want to see surgery photos?). Tbh adults kind of loved my off putting and strange demeanor once I convinced the sea world staff to let me go in the shark tank even though that was extremely illegal and for adults only but I guess I just had such a powerful all consuming love for anything scary and violent that were like surely if a seven year old can handle the shark tank its this one. There’s a photo of me gleefully putting fish in a crocodiles mouth just covered in blood my parents were pretty supportive of my “interests.” Do u think the harleyberts let seb live out his warrior heart. Do you think they took his little katana and replaced it with an age appropriate wooden sword. Do you think they let him kill his own food. That’s another thing I always wanted to do so I could become one with nature but for some reason my parents wouldn’t let me idk why :/ do you think seb tries to do wilderness survival training and shows up with roasted bugs and a DIY water purifier that’s also what I did (my parents confiscated my bugs)

GI IIIVE ME A S SECOND IM LAUGHING SO HARD I

DUDE IM SO GLAD YOUR PARENTS WERE MOSTLY SUPPORTIVE LMFAOOOO parents confescated ur bugs... im sso sorry hhhoooughmy god.

the crockerberts are also odd individuals. NANNA. there r two matriarchs of the household and they are both chaos demons (angels) while seb cant do all his heart desires out in the wilderness, i think he can make do with the tools and alternatives she (plural) delivers to him.

#he is homeschooled both because janey probably was and well. for obvious reasons. #d talks #ask #laughed so hard i got a head ache THANKS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! /lh #i was also a 'weird kid' but NOT to that extent lmfao growing up. i also love biology hence my own dead thing collection #KID NAP A CHICKEN FROM THE PARK HAHAHAHAHA

[vashti-lives]

Me: I love this yarn so much I’m so excited to turn it into sweater aaaahhhhh!!

Also me: I can’t decide what pattern to do I think I’ll just knit this cardigan that I already have a gage swatch for and a plan for.

#I’m doing a gray accent because I don’t have quite enough purple #but between my short arms and tiny torso that might not even be true #so I’ve used a provisional cast on in case there’s enough purple and I change my mind #though honestly the combo is growing on me #adventures in knitting #the lavender ghost #the pattern I’m doing is the reluctant homeschooler #it’s bulky weight so hopefully it’s pretty quick #I do like bottom up patterns where you start with the sleeves #nice to have them out of the way

[incidentalblr]

that one part in the CC timeline song where they cheer at “fall of communism in eastern europe” to let you know unequivocally that communism is bad

#i feel like if you want to understand me you’ve gotta know two things: #1) i was homeschooled #2) my dad was the texas state champion for bible drill growing up

[theninjazebra]

Every so often I am Tempted to Engage With The Discourse,

And then I remember that there is 0 point and log off and live a life of peace.

#one day i will find a way to write about homeschooling/growing up in a weird subculture #but its like describing gravity or air #feels weird and too big

[the-starry-seas]

i think we've known each other long enough that its time i make a confession

I pronounce Ewan McGregor's first name like "Erin", but with the W in there. I have to manually currect myself in my head before i say it out loud. Every time. I read that name and go "Oh! It's Ewin! Wait no, that's wrong."

i think we've known each other long enough that its time i make a confession

I was today years old when I found out it's pronounced Yoo-uhn bc all this time I thought it was Erin but with the W in there

unrelated but it was only like five years ago when I finally realised that 'oregano' wasn't just pronounced Oregon with another O on the end

#voicing our realisations tonight #i said gouda as “gow-duh” for like. longer than i'll admit also #colonel as 'call-uh-nell' #casualties of growing up reading a bajillion words a day but never actually socialising with people. yay homeschooling! yay autism!

[little-klng]

hate that you cant just see a post that talks about how homeschooling is by-and-large a tool for evangelical alt right conspiracy freaks to isolate and abuse their kids out of fear that their kids might grow up to have different ideas and perspectives than them without looking in the notes and seeing 600 people like "well if the parents had some sort of teaching background it would be fine :) the real problem is that they're underqualified and dont really teach common core very well". and just completely missing the point.

#the point is not just 'the kids are underprepared for getting their GED' #its 'the parents who are the biggest majority of homeschoolers literally do not care about the GED or their kids future #as long as their kid grows up indoctrinated and acceptably conservative' #and 'kids who are homeschooled are 99% of the time viciously isolated from their peers and grow up with stunted social and logical skills' #yes the parents are underqualified. even if they were perfectly qualified and had been teachers before #the point is that they're still using homeschooling as a way to ensure their children are little clones of themselves and cant report abuse #and obviously if you were homeschooled as a result of bullying and your parents tried very very hard to get you what you needed #then you're not included in the demographic being talked about. but you have to recognize that you were a part of a lucky minority #also just so we're clear this IS a vague post but the op of the post im vagueing was correct i just didnt wanna clown in their notes #their activity feed has been through enough #child abuse #child neglect #homeschooling #conspiracy theories

[shekeepsmeworms]

Had some wine feeling good made a really shitty bowl in ceramics class this morning that I’m really worried has a bunch of air holes in it and had a really crappy therapy session where I didn’t talk too much but was honest about some other stuff which is good overall I guess but now I’m doing drunk crochet and watching the Duggar family documentary and probably going to stop watching soon once they start talking about the awful stuff but yeah day in the life of a woman doing her best I guess

#like both sides of my family are either Irish catholic. converted assimilation catholic. or part Jewish but raised catholic. #but my mom read the Boston glob report so I wasn’t baptized or anything and despite her born again phase I’ve never really been religious #so the thought of growing up in that environment is like I can’t imagine the pressure oh my god #like I’ve had Mormon friends and have some friends who were raised homeschool Christian married young and all and like #i don’t know it’s just wild how different our lives are like I’ve got a problems and def inherited the guilt complex thing for sure but like #I also never got told to submit to anyone or that god was watching #or to be modest or any of the purity stuff beyond normal patriarchy stuff #like I’m not saying my life is better but I didn’t do church after age 5 and only go to funeral masses so I like the comfort of like #doing sign of cross and saying Hail Mary and all bc it provides structure for grief but beyond that I can’t imagine living with all of that #these are very long tags with no real point beyond wow. that’s literally bananas to me. but did I mention I’m a little drunk #and even then my family isn’t like hardcore catholic. my grandma and her siblings skipped church to get donuts bc no farm work on Sunday #and my dad grew up like doing fasted mass and everything but heard the 2000s Harvey milk speech and realized gay ppl are okay #and then rest of extended dads side is like catholic but vote blue and think human rights are good and all #my mom has a student who’s like very traditional catholic like she was trying to teach him math and whatever #and the live coverage of waiting for pope confirmation was on tv the whole time #and he fights with her about evolution and learning about the existence of other religions and everything #so I guess even in my own family like. everyone’s down with basic science and civil liberties which is even weirder for me I guess #like not even among fundamentalists like just regular Catholics I’ve had a pretty liberal upbringing re faith. it’s just wild to me #to see the differences of worldview #and even non religion stuff was pretty liberal overall despite living in pretty red area. idk it’s just wild how different life can be

[xhanisai]

You know what really grates on my nerves?

When people say that Adrien deserves to get hurt or heartbroken for not ‘noticing’ Marinette and her feelings all this time and when people say that Ladybug deserves to get hurt or heartbroken for not dating Chat Noir right away or something like that.

It is such a vile thing to say or agree on- especially when Adrien and Marinette thinks of the world of each other and their alter egos. Adrien has asked a few times about Marinette’s feelings to her face and her nerves always got the best of her and she never admitted the truth; he trusts and values her word. So it isn’t his fault that he doesn’t know her true feelings for him. 

And Ladybug, despite not accepting her partner’s romantic advances, absolutely adores him! She trusts him with her life and the civilians of Paris. She loves giving him adorable nicknames and treats him with care when she can. Regardless of what she feels for him (even if us viewers know it’s romantic love), Ladybug doesn’t have to go out with him and she shouldn’t be punished by the fandom for that. 

Anyways, these two mean the world to each other on all sides of the lovesquare and they’re not aware that their feelings are reciprocated (regardless of which side). They also NEVER go out of their ways to intentionally harm or hurt the other and always push things aside and prioritise each other when needed.

Do they have a bit of a communication issue? Yes, but they are teenagers and are working on it and they will clear that obstacle. The problem is that they are both too selfless so they don’t like to burden others with their feelings. They will grow and become better people :)

Overall, what I’m trying to say is that lovesquare adore one another and if you genuinely believe that Adrien or Marinette have to be punished for not being aware or acting on the other person’s feelings, you’re a piece of shit and I feel sorry for the people around you :)))))

#ml fandom salt #miraculous ladybug #miraculous ladybug and chat noir #lovesquare sugar #this isn't a vocal minority by the way #i have seen too many people on all platforms with the mindset that adrien and ladybug should be punished or suffer consequences for not #either realising marinette's romantic feelings or accepting chat noir's proposals #and it's genuinely so baffling #how can you seriously not see adrien's blatant love and pining for marinette and the huge respect and admiration for her? #he genuinely cares for her but often gets confused by her behaviour towards him #because he was homeschooled and he is socially awkward af #and ladybug? she fucking loves her partner IT WAS OBVIOUS FROM EPISODE ONE #yes she has unintentionally pushed chat noir away and made him feel lonely but that is because the balance between them shifted when she #became guardian and not to mention having to deal with Chat Blanc!! #in reality the people you love or loves you will end up hurting you be it intentionally or unintentionally #but that's because we are all human and we make mistakes #especially when you're young and you're still learning and growing #as i was typing the tags i just realised #it's another form of demiromantic erase if people genuinely think you should be punished for being friends with someone who's in love with #you even though you love them back (whether you know it or not) #you lads are a stupid bunch #anyways i'll be here all day and i need to fuck off lol