Reply #80: Here's a very liberal boomer who says your parents were a minority in our generation. [View All]

[David Zephyr]

As was George W. Bush.

By the way, I read you edit and think it was swell of you to put it there.

But, your parents were hardly typical of the times. I'm truly sorry you had to be exposed to so much fundamentalism at such a precious age.

I had to leave home as a teen because I was gay and lived on the streets for a number of years. The lowest of those days were actually, as I look back, better than the best of the days at my former home.

It's good to let it out, but you must not keep dialing back for the pain and disrespect. They were adults and you were a child. Now you are their equal.

Honor thy mother and father? As George Carlin says, "only if they earned it."

The good news, no the great news is that you rose out of it and recognize it for what it is.

You are what is known as a transcender. And that says that you are very, very special indeed.