DAE = Does Anyone Else

I get extremely nervous and embarrassed when someone looks on my phone since I have a lot of stuff in there that they don’t approve of. And no, it’s not porn, I hate that ****.

My mom came over and asked to borrow my phone to look up Sandy Furniture for a lounge couch as she forgot to bring hers. I was reluctant at first, but I eventually had to give it to her. The whole time she was looking on my phone, my body was shaking like crazy. The words “please don’t touch the tabs” kept repeating in my mind.

As expected, she did touch the tabs and she saw all the stuff I had on the internet. She yelled at me to close them all down as she claimed I’ll get hacked and that it’s eating up my gigabytes. I started crying, my face flushing. She got grumpy and told me to hush and stop crying.

I explained to her that it’s embarrassing and I get scared when she goes through my phone. She replied that I just doing things that I shouldn’t be doing. I told her she thinks that way because she doesn’t approve of it. “Well you know what’s wrong and right” she replied.

Actually, no I don’t. I don’t have the same morals as my parents. For example they don’t approve of gay and/or transgender people while I’m more accepting towards them. I feel very insecure about my beliefs since I’m afraid if I speak about it, I’ll get shat on. My parents have done this to me several times as they are conservative while I’m more left leaning.

To be surrounded by parents and family with politics that clash against mine is an absolute nightmare. And that’s what I deeply fear the most about society.