ANTHROPHOBIC

I don’t believe it is an actual word but I have been using it for decades:

Earlier this century my youngest granddaughter said “Nan – you are one!” (Human)

There are several reason I don’t  like humans

I suffered 63 years and 8 months of physical and mental abuse from my mother

(mother was such an accomplished liar  she had people convinced she was all sweetness and light and  I was horrible to her)

She said for as long as I remember —

“you are useless: a failure: a disappointment: neither use nor ornament: cannot do anything right!”

This coloured how I saw myself and how others saw me

I was the victim of bullies as a child and ridiculed and treated with contempt as an adult

I had two abusive husbands

Others have shared similar stories after I mentioned my abuse

It is the human attitude to other life forms that  upsets me the most

I used to think there was something wrong with me because I didn’t accept our cultural norms as absolute:

I remember when women had no rights nor status

Couldn’t buy a house:

couldn’t have a bank account without husband’s or father’s signature

And landlords refused to rent to separated women.

If you were not a white heterosexual male you were nothing!

When I objected I was told that this is the way it is meant to be.

Much has changed

But in this day and age

Sociopaths succeed

 Psychopaths are glorified

And mindless automatons fit in.

Knowing a culture and its religion affect language

Western cultures would be so much better if we had these words

NAMASTE

AHIMSA