Mom: “what do you wanna be when you grow up?”ĥ year old child: “I wanna be a FBI agent” Once you turn 18 you’re expected to be self-reliant and individual by society but what they didn’t tell you is you’re expected to be in debt from college loans, rent, insurance, having fun and so on.Īnother reason that makes growing up bad is everyone asking you what you wanna do when you grow and then question you’re decision like you’re planning to kidnap the president or something. But at that age ‘making our own decisions’ and ‘being independent’ was just us in our adolescence wanting to go out with our friends not go to work from 6AM to 6PM, pay for our own cell phone bill and apply to college. I’m sure many of us remember saying this or something similar when our parents wouldn’t let us go out. FAT and lil’ puff-pants-party-pee-prince or whatever his name is this month” I’m sure we’ve all been there in our lives when we we’re hitting puberty, worrying about braces, getting zits and hair everywhere, and we just wanted to have our freedom and to be independent.Īverage whiney teenage girl: “You never let me do anything FUN! Or make my own decisions! OMG! UGH! I wish you would leave me alone! AND LET ME LIVE MY LIFE!!!!1! !!1! 2.” #I’msomature #itsmylifeĪverage whiney teenage boy: “mom I don’t wanna pull my pants up, sagging and swaggin is what makes me ME it’s my style and I’m gonna grow up to be a rapper like Two-Pac Shake-your-butt and B.I.G E. Once you hear these reasons it’ll make you want to get a happy meal to remind you of when you were a carefree kid. The thing is life after high school is a scary thing to think about mostly having to make your own decisions and relying on yourself instead of your parents or friends. When we’re young we love to imagine how our lives are gonna be after high school and how we’re going to be getting away from our parents, having fun with our friends on the weekends not worrying about writing papers in school. The reality is that in the way of those dreams are nightmares (nightmares that come with growing up) I’m talking about becoming independent and making your own decisions. I know that “perfection” is unattainable and that this comic, like all drawings made by people in the world, will be beautiful and special because of the people who came together to create it with care.We all have our dreams of what we’re going to do after high school whether it be going to college or finding work or even traveling the world for a while. ) But I am no longer afraid of the result. I’m afraid that I will not be able to have this 36 page comic finished and print ready by the first set deadline in 3 days. You may be wondering, am I afraid? Yes and no. But because the topic of this comic is serious, emotional and representing a marginalized group, preplanning and feedback has been and continues to be a critical part of the process. I’ve never put this much research and writing into a comic before drawing anything. Making this comic has flipped my entire world upside down. I think this is very cool and important! I am very proud to be on their team. The comic has been made possible through Gaining STEAM, a program put together by JKX Comics that is focused on making scientific research accessible to the general public with the magic of art. The comic is centered around the effects of minority stressors on trans and non-binary people and how psychotherapy with trans/nb trained therapists can potentially help them. And sometimes, they were hilarious drawings.įlash-forward to the present, I am currently working on collaborative comic with Stephanie Budge, an Associate Professor in Counseling Psychology and the Director of Advancing Health Equity and Diversity at the University of Wisconsin Madison. I could not expect “perfection” from myself, but I could expect to have a drawing at the end. It seemed silly to worry about the end product because I was drawing in pen under time limits varying from 30 seconds to 5 minutes. But soon the fear of my results began to melt away. She gave me a felt tip pen (no erasing), a prompt, a short time limit and said GO! It was terrifying… I was in new territory, unable to take back the lines I put down. Lynda Barry, or Professor Mandrake at the time (she goes by many names), helped me overcome my fear by challenging me to confront the hardest part about drawing… starting. I developed the fear that my drawings were not good enough. This is not all bad, but I developed a fear that started to swallow up the joy. I was no longer thinking only of what I thought of my art, but what other people thought of it too. I have enjoyed drawing my entire life, but somewhere down the line of growing up, I stopped drawing for myself. She helped me leap over the barrier that is my adult fear of drawing. It started when I entered my first class with Lynda Barry. I learned to make comics by drawing first and thinking later.
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