Afraid to show work to family and friends?

[Maps]

Omg I feel you. I’m constantly hiding my iPad from wandering eyes when I’m home

[Novalinlin]

Right??

I started posting online, I think, November of 2016, and I remember my mom trying to guilt trip me into showing my tumblr blog to my brother...which was filled with fanart and ship-art for various fandoms and I seriously almost had a meltdown >__>

[blackwolfdog77]

A little bit.
My parents don't really like swearing and I like swearing a lot. There's a lot of it in my comic as a lot of my characters have potty mouths.
I'm comfortable showing it to them, and they think it's cool. But dad can be a little traditional sometimes.

The comic which I'm writing is about K-pop (but is not a fanfic) and I'm afraid that most people won't get it, or they will think it's stupid. One person asked me "Why don't you write about something that's important/interesting?". That crushed me but, now I don't really care.

I've showed my comic to a lot of people and my best friend likes it (at least she knows what K-pop is). Most of the people who I show it to are elderly adults and they like it but they don't understand it.

Oh well, Imma weird teen. At least my parents don't go threw my room and stuff.

[Maps]

I had somehow kept my tumblr away from friends and family for almost 8 years and then I sort of stopped caring because I wasn’t really blogging anything I felt like hiding. But I can’t even imagine what that would be like for you with your work on there!
My friends and family know I’m drawing comics but I don’t show them my work. It’s like you’ve said, it’s a safe place for me and it’s sort of that one thing I want for myself. Plus, dunno how much mom and dad would enjoy my BL comics and my violent BL novel

[Novalinlin]

8 years?? Holy moly you did so well
Yeah I mean, if you don't have anything private or something you'd like for them not to see then I can see why you'd stop caring about hiding it :>

But yeah sharing ship art and personal stuff (being non-binary and other lgbt related stuff) isn't really on my list of family-sharable-stuff
and like I wrote I have one 'friend' that's super nosey and I'd like for my rant places and safe spaces to be hidden away from people like that ( ･ัω･ั )

[IdiotWithPencil]

I always tell them, but they never read or rather care for that matter =P, they are fine with me drawing it but it just ain't their cup of tea ya know?

[QueenofBabyLoon]

My mother is a well-read literary snob. She has the guts to look down on J.R.R. Tolkien. And she does so with class, backing each and every one of her opinions with solid arguments.
Whenever she reads something that based on her set of criteria is not worth the time, she simply smirks at it in a self-satisfied manner.
And to be honest, if she had any desire to invest her time into literature or the visual arts, she would most probably be excellent at it. When I spent years trying desperately to learn to draw, she would just come over, look at what I did and redo it much better. I found her renditions of my own drawings, looking through some material a few years ago. It was painful.
She studied the law. Thus, she can write like no one I know. She is truly a talent at everything she does.
So, here I am. Mediocre by comparison. I am so scared that my writing, though she always encouraged me to write (seeing very well, that the visual arts where not my forte and mocking me ruthlessly for my lack of musical sense - I come from a very musical family), will get me that self-satisfied smirk. Not even a debate on why it sucks, just that dismissive smirk that closes the subject.

[LT1986]

I'm not afraid to show my work to family and friends. I showed them my material in the past. They are not interested in it. I'm not afraid to show my work to any one? Eventually I would like my work to evolve/grow to the point that they stumble across it again without me showing them, again.

[MoThErNaTure]

Absolutely, i'm worried they'll get upset and learn things they don't need to know. It's hard to trust everyone aswell.

[qrt]

oh geez. I don't even know where to get started with this T_T As a kid I'd write with a big focus on character development and story and plot. Very technical, but I thrived on ideas. I had no trouble showing that to anyone and everyone, but after a while, I ended up realizing nobody was going to actually read 1k of it in their own time, nevermind 10k. I got really private with my stuff, under the impression I was just annoying about it all.

The stuff I write now is insanely hyperindulgent for me. Like escapist in some form of it, a big couple of sandboxes to play in, and attempts to get me back to how I was before I stopped writing in high school. I'm afraid as hell to show my friends bc I don't consider any of it quality or worthy to their standards. One of my best friends is insanely well read, smart and in an animation program, while the other one graduated out of film, so storytelling is BOTH their fortes and their future careers. If either of them said something critical, I would be really upset considering how much I love what I write because it's just....deliberately for me and I consider them personal.

My sister knows I write, but it'll be a snowball's day in hell before she'll read any of it because she doesn't like reading more than she has to. She's probably the only person I'd ever show it to, for that very reason. Parents, never. It'd be a literary story if I had to share, something I wouldn't be embarrassed or shy to have my name on because I'd have taken much more perfectionist nitpick strict care overall and precision to control image and presentation (but I don't write those so, moot point).

[whiskeyjack]

It's not so much I'm afraid of it, but more of my irl friends and family just don't care about it. I write/draw a lot of mlm stuff so largely it'll just be my husband and online friends encouraging me on.