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so what kind of things are A Big Deal in your family? The kind of thing where as you grow up you start to realize "Oh...not everyone is as nuts about X as us?" Be it food, media, sports....

My family is very serious about sci-fi. It's almost like a right of passage, what you can read and watch when. Like watching The Phantom Menace when you're 10 and the original trilogy when you're 13. We also all waited impatiently for the various book series; you could read Junior Jedi Knights when you were 7 or 8, then Jedi Apprentice series, Young Jedi Knights, Dragonback series, Artemis Fowl Series, various Star Trek and Star Wars novels. (we were all kinda chicken, so our parents vetted them based on level of sex and violence...Timothy Zahn's are amazingly clean, so you can read those first, etc)

Well, I never realized how protective some of my male relatives are and how not normal it is. *shifty eyes*

I did not realize how crazy my dad is in general until I got to middle school. It was only after I became socialized with normals that I became aware of the fact that he is a racist, homophobic, alcoholic control-freak. Especially since he is so convinced that he is extremely progressive on certain issues regarding race and orientation.

Now it's almost funny, because I can immediately tell when he is about to get unspeakably offensive, since he always starts using "the" adjectives: "the blacks", "the gays", etc. It's like a 5-second warning that things are about to get super uncomfortable for everyone in the room.

I do love Zahn's books, his are some of my favorite Star Wars books. Those and the X-Wing series.

I never realized how casual and social my family is. For example, after I graduated high school, we redid our kitchen. Now almost all dinners are served buffet style, with the plates on the counter and everything served on the counter, because our table is smaller (we only eat in the dining room for special occasions). So now it's weird to get used to sitting down to eat at friend's houses for formal dinners.

We also celebrate EVERYTHING and have fun parties at my house all the time that it took me a while to realize not everyone does this because I have done it all my life.

Dude, I LOVE the x-wing series almost as much as Zahn's books! I esp. love Allston..idk, I'm just such a sucker for banter and bad puns.

That's cool that your family is social like that. My family is casual and friendly but somehow we never entertained. Sounds like fun. ^^

Allston and Stackpole's books are the only ones I enjoy out of the New Jedi Order series.

It's super fun to have such a social family. It was hard when I was in college and I'd only hear about all the fun random parties, such as "oh too much food in freezer, let's celebrate to clean" or "Daytona race party" or "nice weather day, let's grill"

Bit of a shock to realize my parents' rather progressive gender attitudes don't extend to the rest of the family. And that they are progressive at all - I interpreted a lot of my parents' gender attitudes as quite dated at the time, but in comparison to the overwhelming vast majority of the population, they are quite forward thinking, just a little on the overprotective side for different reasons.

The problem is that now I'm never completely sure what the rest of my family thinks on certain issues, i.e. when I went to India for my cousin's wedding and everyone was joking about setting me up with "a nice Indian husband" (typical joke for a woman my age in the culture), one of my uncles chipped in, "or a nice Indian wife". Was he just joking, or does he genuinely take the stance that as long as I'm married to a nice Indian, the gender doesn't matter? Could go either way, but trying to ask for clarification could cause family drama in its own way, so now I'm stuck just not knowing. -_-

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