Oh hey, posted in the good section now! I have 20 minutes before they kick me out of here...
In high school, I hid my interests so well that only two people in my school really knew me (and it was a very close school, where we all knew everyone's name, graduating class of less than 20, less than 200 people in HS, etc). North Dakota isn't exactly the place to love anime and manga... I could count the number of people like me on one hand. I didn't care that my mom and sister knew, but they didn't even know (or care) how big of role it played in my life.
I always only used to watch anime and read manga in privacy on my laptop. That's how it was when I got to college, too, until my laptop broke down. I've found that being forced with the decision of either giving up anime/manga for a month or watching it in public has changed my level of concealment quite a bit. I'm a little surprised by how openly I've been doing it, honestly. It makes me feel stupid for how I used to care about hiding it so much...
It doesn't make me a freak that I love them so much (I promise!). It sucks that I'm about the only one here that cares about it, but I don't mind others knowing I love it. It just sucks having no one to talk with about it, ever...
Fight the power, is what I say!
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Oh wow, and fellow anime/manga peoples, I've actually really turned into a bookworm without my computer. I've been reading in all my free time since Friday (already went through four novels since then). Before that, I read sometimes (and still got through 3). I've destroyed seven novels since this semester started... I don't know what's happening to me.
In high school, I hid my interests so well that only two people in my school really knew me (and it was a very close school, where we all knew everyone's name, graduating class of less than 20, less than 200 people in HS, etc). North Dakota isn't exactly the place to love anime and manga... I could count the number of people like me on one hand. I didn't care that my mom and sister knew, but they didn't even know (or care) how big of role it played in my life.
I always only used to watch anime and read manga in privacy on my laptop. That's how it was when I got to college, too, until my laptop broke down. I've found that being forced with the decision of either giving up anime/manga for a month or watching it in public has changed my level of concealment quite a bit. I'm a little surprised by how openly I've been doing it, honestly. It makes me feel stupid for how I used to care about hiding it so much...
It doesn't make me a freak that I love them so much (I promise!). It sucks that I'm about the only one here that cares about it, but I don't mind others knowing I love it. It just sucks having no one to talk with about it, ever...
Fight the power, is what I say!
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Oh wow, and fellow anime/manga peoples, I've actually really turned into a bookworm without my computer. I've been reading in all my free time since Friday (already went through four novels since then). Before that, I read sometimes (and still got through 3). I've destroyed seven novels since this semester started... I don't know what's happening to me.