Hey Aldean, I was raised in a small town. Let me tell ya' 'bout it . . .

[lambchopp59]

60. No apology necessary

As I expressed to my closest sibling upon dad's demise: no I won't be in attendance at his funeral. I'd flush his ashes down the toilet.
My parents screwed me up badly. They were too busy fighting to pick up on my problems and I learned to avoid interacting with either of them. It was also shitty of the school faculty to willingly ignore that bullying wholesale in that ridiculously religous town.
I had sublimated the worst of it for decades. Then my nightmares attacked me until I was having hypertensive arrhythmia in the night. I actually lucked into a drug enhancec exposure therapy trial that although it repaired the nightmares, revived memories I'd long blocked out.
I came far too close to being the local Westboro influenced baptist cult's third suicide victim from that tiny town.
I've had to remain on blood pressure meds every day ever since Trump and it disturbs me tremendously these self righteous RW assholes ard working to re-create the bigotry, isolation and even genocidal madness all over again.
I'm one of the early statistic: 40 percent of homeless are LGBTQ .