Help: Get Parents to Accept the Fact that I am a Gamer/Otaku
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Isn't growing up one of those things where you try to live up to your fathers standard because he had to do the same thing for his dad and so on? I don't think your parents will really accept it, just push on and do your own thing, when and if they accept you it will happen at their own pace, you can't force this kind of thing, and if you try to force it.... lets just say it probably won't end well.ThatOtakuGuy said:
Like many thing's in Japanese it has taken on a different term in English. Like sushi meaning "raw fish" instead of just a dish involving vinegared rice. Or like manga meaning "Japanese visual novel" instead of just the literal Japanese meaning of "comic book".Canid117 said:
I imagine it sounds incredibly stupid to those who have seriously studied Japan or who are Japanese themselves but its still useful to have terms for those things anyway.
Getting parents to accept you is simple.
Ask them what they would prefere:
A "nerd" for a son (I also hate the lable)
or a drug feind shooting heroine (as well as other assorted substances) every which way.
They will probably stop hasling you.
Ps you should take someone else's advise, i didnt sleep last night.
Ask them what they would prefere:
A "nerd" for a son (I also hate the lable)
or a drug feind shooting heroine (as well as other assorted substances) every which way.
They will probably stop hasling you.
Ps you should take someone else's advise, i didnt sleep last night.
OP i don't actually see what your problem is. From reading your post all i've seen is that your dad laughed at something you watched and compared it to something he watched. My parents mock things i do (for example the fucking annoying "ALL UNITS" command in halo wars) but it don't actually mean anything man. I just jokingly tell them to piss off and in turn i take the piss out of stuff they do. Shit could be a hell of a lot worse.
Hell my dad even likes to get involved with some of the games i play asking about how it's going and that it looks pretty sweet.
Hell my dad even likes to get involved with some of the games i play asking about how it's going and that it looks pretty sweet.
I play a lot of videogames thus I get the occasional "All you do with your life is sitting on your ass looking at a screen all day".
Gotten so used to it that it's more like an "I love you son" nowadays.
Gotten so used to it that it's more like an "I love you son" nowadays.
Likewise here. They got me into Trek when I was 7.hittite said:
OT: Dont worry about it. It's not interfering with your ability to enjoy the games right? You have it much better than some of the people I know.
i can't help you with personal experience here my parents have never really been bothered by my nerdiness, but you could always just tell them to grow up and get over it i mean its not exactly a hold back in life and its really not that big of a problem.
failing that you could hit them with a replica lightsaber until they accept it, t'would be sooner rather than later as those things hurt.
failing that you could hit them with a replica lightsaber until they accept it, t'would be sooner rather than later as those things hurt.
I have a fairly varied family. We are all into movies of pretty much any genre, I'm a gamer (15) my bro watches anime/gets drunk (17) my sister... is a Northener (22), my dad plays golf and my mum plays horses in a field. Not much communication, not much love for eachother, not much money but we get along.
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They didn't seem to mind it, so what's wrong with that? So what if your dad laughs at Montecristo? At least somebody actually enjoyed the damn thing. Lord knows I didn't.. that thing was so damn dull. How do you make an anime that feels slower than reading the actual book?
I laugh at my mom watching her B-movies all the time. She loves those things. She knows it's stupid, but she watches it anyway. I also laugh at my brother watching his movies, and when my dad watches his. Everyone just have different preferred entertainment format. There's nothing wrong with that. There's absolutely no reason that they should have to care about things they clearly don't enjoy enough to differentiate between multiple manga/anime/etc.
If they actually let you buy those things with their money (let me emphasize--their house, their rules, and your allowance = their money), then they clearly are in fact OK with you liking anime. And there is absolutely no reason for them to try to like it as well.
Trust me..it's better this way. You don't want to run into your parents at a con.
And man..how Otaku could be such a tame word in the US is beyond me.
I laugh at my mom watching her B-movies all the time. She loves those things. She knows it's stupid, but she watches it anyway. I also laugh at my brother watching his movies, and when my dad watches his. Everyone just have different preferred entertainment format. There's nothing wrong with that. There's absolutely no reason that they should have to care about things they clearly don't enjoy enough to differentiate between multiple manga/anime/etc.
If they actually let you buy those things with their money (let me emphasize--their house, their rules, and your allowance = their money), then they clearly are in fact OK with you liking anime. And there is absolutely no reason for them to try to like it as well.
Trust me..it's better this way. You don't want to run into your parents at a con.
And man..how Otaku could be such a tame word in the US is beyond me.
I vaguely remember liberty kids, watched some of it as a kid when we didn't have any cable.
OT: I had something of a similar problem. The first time my Dad realized I was watching anime he made a crack about me wearing a cape. I could tell he was only half kidding, and it didn't help when he caught an episode of Death Note. Then for a few months he was very anti-videogames, and in turn very anti "geek" culture. He's since mellowed out a bit, and seems content with the fact that I'm a geek.
Guess what I'm saying is that, you shouldn't have a problem. If anything, your dad just seems to find it funny. But even if your parents didn't approve, who cares? As many people have already said, just do what you love and enjoy it
OT: I had something of a similar problem. The first time my Dad realized I was watching anime he made a crack about me wearing a cape. I could tell he was only half kidding, and it didn't help when he caught an episode of Death Note. Then for a few months he was very anti-videogames, and in turn very anti "geek" culture. He's since mellowed out a bit, and seems content with the fact that I'm a geek.
Guess what I'm saying is that, you shouldn't have a problem. If anything, your dad just seems to find it funny. But even if your parents didn't approve, who cares? As many people have already said, just do what you love and enjoy it