SCP community
I sometimes hate being a minor in an all adult community. Sure theres others in my age group but only like 3 of them are my friends while the rest are all young adults or strait up adults. Anytime I have to explain im in a mostly adult comunity I always get these weird looks, like I just told them I wanted to rob a bank or like I just bullied them for how they looked. I hate when I show someone a video or phot what one of the creators I talk about of support looks like and they go ‘that’s a whole adult!’ Or ‘omg that’s a grown man!’ Like yes. I told you they were, did you think I was joking?
and it sucks that this is the one community that actualy makes me feel safe and accepted.
it’s the first community where people have treated me like an actual person.
and I can’t even share this interest without irl friends going ‘oh great you never shut up about this’ or ‘oh no why would you ask what scp is now (name) will never stop talking about it!” even though I try to avoid talking about it because the one time I asked “what so you’re allowed to talk about your interest and im not?” And I was told “yes! Because yours is annoying.” if I can’t even enjoy what I like around 90% of those I know irl, whats the point?
anytime I interact with someone I find cool, wether it’s another fan, an SCP author, SCP project, content creator, you get the point, I get so worried that they will hate me for some reason or will think I’m trying to get up in their Business, hell I struggle to even follow said creators and artist outside of YouTube, it took me weeks to gain enough courage to follow people like desk or sherman on Twitter. it took me weeks before I actively talked to multiple people on the keterlabs discord server that im now getting to help temporary moderate this month. It took me a while before I was able to act like myself in raddaghers co-working streams out of fear that I was gonna get treated way different or even kicked from the stream for being below 18.
yet every time I ended up being worried I was met with completely different behavior than what I thought would happen.
people didn’t care, they treated me as they had before.
I love this community, hell I have people who support my art and animations and such, but that’s basically only online. Pretty much any time I try to enjoy SCP outside of stuff online im met with people bashing it and/or hating on it all because it’s simply not their taste or they refuse to learn anything about it. While I have a friend or two irl who are in the fandom they usually don’t wanna talk about it at all. the people irl who have fully supported it and sometimes even actually took time to look into it were adults.
it just sucks that the one community i feel safe in is one where people outside of it will treat me weirdly for being in it.
