Well, but everybody knows that gayness was invented in the '70s. I remember it well...
I had forgotten that nobody ever committed suicide (except for Sylvia Plath) but that, too, was a part of my childhood. Mine was particularly weird on the mental health front because the fundies believed that mental illness was really just sin, and that any attempt to get treated for mental illness was an attempt to avoid dealing with your sinful nature.
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Date: 2014-02-23 01:06 pm (UTC)I had forgotten that nobody ever committed suicide (except for Sylvia Plath) but that, too, was a part of my childhood. Mine was particularly weird on the mental health front because the fundies believed that mental illness was really just sin, and that any attempt to get treated for mental illness was an attempt to avoid dealing with your sinful nature.