It Was Too Much To Ask…
Rando 28: SFW
As soon as she walked in, she felt the tension. It was why she had stayed away all these years. She hated feeling this way. She had never been the issue, to begin with, it was their conservative closed-mindedness that was the issue. Their unwillingness to accept the truth. The real facts of the way life was, there was no way around it, and it had been that way all her life. She had never set out to hurt anyone. She simply wanted authenticity in her life. Was it simply too much to ask or to bear? Apparently, for most of her family, it was too much to ask for.
Especially her parents led the pack of tension and close-mindedness, which baffled her beyond belief, as they were the ones who had raised her to follow her dreams and desires and to live openly and honestly as best as she knew how. Now, here she was at fifty-eight, being blamed for doing exactly what she had been told all her life. It was such a double standard, and she hated them for it. Her father was a drunkard and abusive, her mother his punching bag as well as the submissive gossip who’d sell her mother to better her life.
How could she trust any of that? She couldn’t. It’s why she walked away from it all at sixteen and lived on the streets, homeless for two years before finding an LGBTQIA+ Homeless Shelter for youth. Those earliest years during the height of the AIDS Crisis…
