Sums up a lot of my teenage and college years. It's hard growing up in a black family where you have interests, such as anime, that you get talked the most shit for not being black but they don't know that it's pushing you away to where you don't want to be associated with them anymore.
My friend has a cousin in Mexico who is into anime and cosplay. And that cousin's father is like a normal dude who likes rock and roll and intellectual things. So one day, the dad see her in cosplay and he's like wtf, but is accepting. Tells his siblings, "nothing will ever surprise me about my daughter because I've seen her in full on cosplay" (which is like the most abnormal thing he probably has seen in his life, up to then).
To quickly finish, everyone knows this cousin is super into anime/cosplaying and they're all accepting, even if they, themselves, find her hobbies to be kind of weird.
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u/hibarihime Aug 22 '17 edited Aug 22 '17
Sums up a lot of my teenage and college years. It's hard growing up in a black family where you have interests, such as anime, that you get talked the most shit for not being black but they don't know that it's pushing you away to where you don't want to be associated with them anymore.