October 2007. 13 year old me was rebelling because i had to move in with my lame conservative Grandparents. Who also gave me money to buy every Hot Topic piece I'm wearing here.

Honestly... thank you for asking because my Grandpa actually just died this month and its why i found this picture in the first place.

I had a LOT of resentment built up towards my Grandma when this pic was taken but it was because my Mom had died about 3 years prior and i hated that she was taking care of me and not my mom and i lashed out at her a lot. It wasn't her fault. She and i had a lot of fights and i had some other legitimate reasons to be mad at her (she enabled her drug addict son (my uncle) to emotionally and verbally abuse me a lot and always expected me to be the bigger person but he was a 35 year old man and i was a child) but the last few years of her life we got along great and had even cried and held eachother numerous times. After she died in 2012 i took her cat and me and my dad loved and spoiled that cat more than a cat can ever be spoiled (you can see him in my history, the orange one i posted to Maine Coons).

As for my Grandpa... I could probably post everyday to both raisedbynarcissists and managedbynarcissists (i worked for him for 7 years) never run out of material but i wouldn't trade my time with him for the world. He was so fucking mean and drove me insane. But after he died his daughter left me out of his obituary (he was my step grandfather and this daughter hated me and my Dad and Grandma) and i flipped my shit so hard because he was my Grampy and i loved him and he loved me. His last words to me were that i had to be nice to him because his head hurt and i said i'm sorry Grampy and i kissed him. I wrote him an absolutely beautiful and heartfelt euology but wasn't allowed to speak it at his funeral because my Dad didn't want me to piss off his biological kids who lived in a different state and never even saw him. My Grandpa was a really popular figure in my county in CT and i always super proud to call him my Grampy so being left out of his obituary fucking hurt and still hurts but I know and everyone who was close to him knows how much we loved eachother despite how much we screames at eachother and fought all the time. Sometimes i want to go to those raisednarcissists subs and tell people "love difficult people, you are one of them" because thats what i learned being raised by my conservative Grandparents as the annoying blundery goth girl you see here.

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