• EmptySlime@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    3 months ago

    Oh my God that comment about being bullied by him for being feminine. I felt that in my fucking soul. I got that shit so much from my father when I was younger. About the stupidest shit too.

    I had this baby doll that I apparently loved when I was little. I was too young to remember having it, but when my brother was a baby apparently I’d follow my mom around with it and while she took care of my brother if she was doing something that I couldn’t help with I’d take care of my baby doll.

    He hated this fucking doll with a passion. Didn’t want me to have it because he was convinced I’d grow up to be gay if I had it. Only the word he used was worse. He ended up jumping at the chance to give the doll away to a family they were acquainted with lost their house in a fire and their daughter had no toys left because he could get away with it then. But his hate for this fucking doll was crazy. Like it was impossible for me to become a parent one day and gasp take care of my own child.

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      3 months ago

      I’m sorry that you went through that. My 9 year olds mother took his safety blanket from him 5 years ago. He was “too old for it”. Fuck that. If it makes him feel better, he has it. This is why we’re no longer together. I bought him a new one and he gets it whenever he wants at my house. He rarely uses it, but it’s there for him when he wants it. He’s 9. He’s still just a kid, it’s not like I’m handing him job applications.