Teen Gothic

i wasn't born during the 80s nor the 90s and i wasn't exposed to any goth music when i was growing up, yet when i hear it, i feel the most inexplicably otherworldly comforting feeling– this vague feeling of home–but i don't even know if i could call it that because it seems to feel for experiences that were never mine in the first place.

i like it nonetheless. does anyone feel the same?

i feel like there's a stereotype around goth that all goths must be super miserable or smthn, but getting involved in the subculture has been helpful immensely for me. it acts not only as community, but also spending time discovering new music and creating my own music is a great outlet for any general frustrations. plus, as a trans and just generally gender nonconforming individual, i can be freely expressive with my appearance without getting judged for it, at least not within the community. it's also made me not feel as much of a need to mask symptoms of autism, since this subculture is much more accepting of autism and autistic traits than the general populus

tldr i love being goth and am just overall thankful for this subculture and every other person in it