• RBWells@lemmy.world
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    17 days ago

    Probably my dad, he accepted me for who I was as a weird little kid, never pushed for conformity as far as I could tell. He got me grownup books to read when I was little because I read like a grownup. Got me spicy food, talked about economics, the Tao, the poems of Omar Khyam. My mom didn’t talk down to me or anything but just didn’t really connect because we were so different as people.

    He died when I was a teenager, but I have mostly been able to do this for my kids, because it was modeled for me. You are who you are, you don’t have to conform or do “normal” things in the usual order to fit in the world, you are part of the world. Doesn’t mean it’s always comfortable, but that’s true for anybody.

  • Sean@lemmy.world
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    18 days ago

    To be quite honest, my own parents. They tried really hard to give me and my siblings a good life.

  • FeelThePower@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    18 days ago

    Being completely serious here, sailor moon and the sailor guardians. There’s been so many times even in recent memory where I’ll get an idea and I’ll tell myself “well… the sailor scouts wouldn’t think it’s very nice to do that” (ex making negative comments toward someone else).

  • HelixDab2@lemm.ee
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    18 days ago

    Shannon Larratt. He strongly influenced my beliefs in individual bodily autonomy, and individual liberty (which dovetail nicely with Mikhail Bakunin). He led me to be a Satanist even though he was not one himself.

  • rab@lemmy.ca
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    17 days ago

    Alexi laiho but I never became a rockstar you can probably tell