Teen Gothic

Everytime that I put a goth t-shirt or sweater my mom makes comments about how I'm weird/should stop wearing that "garbage". What should I do?

Im a baby bat so I dont know too much about this besides killstar 🤷‍♂️

(he/him)

Me and my family are poor and im the biggest money spender my dads mad at me for cutting up clothes that doesn't fit me because "we can give it to someone who needs it" but im just repurposing it cause we cant afford cool goth clothes.

I struggle with pretty bad self esteem and social anxiety issues, and I dress pretty punk/grunge/goth/alt because that's what makes me feel more confident. But whenever I see other people who also have the same style and look super cool, I feel horrible and insecure about myself and I feel like I don't look good enough and will never look good enough. I see so many badass clothes online and in person and I feel so tempted to keep buying more. Each time I think "If I just buy this, I'll finally look cool and feel good about myself and people will finally be interested in me." Obviously that doesn't happen, and no matter what I wear, I still feel inferior and ugly. Has anybody else ever dealt with this?

I absolutely love wearing goth clothes and want to wear them everyday but just a bit nervous but I don't really listen to much goth music. Does that mean i shouldn't wear the clothes?