hello anon thank you for caring wow and also sorry for the delay. i’m at the beach and actually not pasty white anymore wtf but yooo, while my dad is my bff and my dad’s side of the family is made up of a lovely assortment of brilliant, hilarious, interesting people who i love and who love me, my mom and her side of the family is all sad strange crazy people who i don’t know that well.

well, my mom aside. i know her and i love her and i will always love her but she’s not the easiest person to be around. my parents got married when they were both hippie people into tm (transcendental meditation) and my dad still does it twice a day every day for an hour each but my mom at some point in their marriage had her religious awakening and became very very catholic, and even joined a weird cult for a while quite recently (and got my sister and me these weird seals of approval from god that you are supposed to present it at the rapture or something so you could go to heaven and then like a few months later she came and she was like “i found out it was a hoax do you believe those seals are worth NOTHING!” and i for one was shocked at this news). my parents divorced when i was three and my sister was nine and our parents got split custody but i mostly lived with my mom until i was sixteen, at which point i dropped out of high school and moved in with my dad in the next town over

my mom’s strange and she’s smart but she doesn’t believe she is and she’s very self victimizing and nothing is ever ever ever her fault. like when she burned through the inheritance her mother left her she took the inheritance her mother left me, which okay, it was to pay her rent and i would have given it to her if she’d asked bc it’s not like i earned it and idc much about money anyway, but she didn’t ask and then when she told me about it she acted like i had no right to be mad and “i wouldn’t have had to if your father hadn’t left me” like. thanks mom. really cool.

that’s the worst thing she’s ever done tho, and generally i get on with her quite well if we don’t talk about religion/politics/social issues. she knows i’m gay and dating michelle and she doesn’t really mind but she makes a show of it for posterity’s sake, like she won’t get her catholic cred if she’s not slighty homophobic

all in all though she can be very sweet and kind and good hearted and tho she doesn’t really get along with people she has a real knack with animals and we used to always take in injured ducks and bunnies and birds and things and she’s got some kittens and cats who were starving she takes care of now and animals really love and trust her for some reason.

oh no!! i just thought of the real worst thing my mother ever did to me. when i was in kindergarten she had me do a dance routine to britney spear’s stronger with her for the talent show wearing matching leopard print outfits. all of my emotional troubles stem from that event i am sure