(TW: Parents) Feel like there's absolutely 0 excuse for all they done
Anytime I felt sad or down, apparently I'm not allowed to be because I'm a guy and guys can't be sad or down. They still say this everytime, isn't it fun having to navigate eggshells in your own home, your own safespace? They should always be happy and never anything else. They screamed at me when I couldn't get my studies right at 2nd grade, my father told me I was dumb and would never get a future because of some exam results that didn't matter (they were not the final grades), and my mother yelled at me through the phone because I didn't know how to print her work documents.
"Oh but maybe they didn't know better." We had internet, we still do, they had smartphones, they could do a single Google search to know whether screaming at your child and denying their right to feel negative emotions was correct. They didn't.
And my parents still force me to go to Church every Sunday while they continue to never apologize or acknowledge their actions. God bless religion giving a shield to abusers to make them look and feel moral.