>>42012573(2/2)
I learned to keep my stuff hidden from him until my sister ratted on me and gave him copies of Pokemon White and Guardian Signs I borrowed from another friend. She believed all his religious crap and thought she was helping me. He didn't talk to me for a week and gave me a stink-eye. She and I are good now.
I grew up assuming he'd never change his ways until Pokemon Go became the sensation a few years back and would ask why my sister and I weren't out playing it. Doing all of that to me and then just nonchalantly bringing it up made me feel an astonishment I really can't explain that well.
The last acknowledgement he did was noticed a keychain of Cyndaquil I have in my room and he just asked what it was from. I told him it's a Pokemon and he just said "ohhh" before carrying on. I have no idea what's going on in his head about this stuff nowadays.
What confused me even more is his sister (as well as her husband and two kids) are WAY more religious than him, and every time I talked to them about why he was acting that way, they were very confused and thought Pokemon was fine. I saw my older cousin playing Soul Silver on his DS once and I asked my dad why he can play it and I can't. He never answered it and just yelled at me calling me ungrateful and grounding me for mouthing off.
All of this resulted in me being super self-conscious about my interests and being incredibly hesitant when someone asks casual stuff like "what kind of music do you like?" or "what are your hobbies?". I still hide my games out of habit and a slight smidgen of fear.
