My situation is nothing as bad as many others, my family doesn't harass me and we are able to have mostly positive interactions. They are however emotionally stunted and withholding. What I've noticed more and more as I get older is they don't like things or people that are different from them or that they don't understand, especially my mom. And I'm actually one of those people they don't understand.

My mom and I are both artists. My mom does more "traditional" subjects like landscapes and city scenes. Her paintings are beautiful, and shes very prolific so she sends her stuff to the family group chat multiple times a week for feedback. She sometimes asks for specific feedback that is a bit involved, other times just saying "beautiful!" is a satisfactory response.

My art is very different from my mom's. A lot of it has nude figures of different body types and I also really like fantasy and monsters. I am skilled as an artist and use many mediums. I've been practicing since childhood and it's my main passion.

Because my art isn't her taste, my mom has numerous times responded to seeing my art with "OK, dragontopia" or with laughter and "pretty crazy!"

Over the years I have simply stopped sharing my art because I knew I wouldn't get the reaction that I wished for. I get that parents may not be equipped to see their child is primarily making art about nudes and personal body image and that's OK.

I have recently started a new medium I never thought I'd get into, which is jewelry making including creating unique pendants myself. They're crazy looking but some people would wear them, including me. They are playful.

I shared a couple of the them in the family group chat because they have no nudity and I think it's pretty cool I started making these even though I have no experience with any aspect of it, and it's been so fun for me. Well nobody responded except my mom to say she didn't really get it and they look kind of scary.

My mistake for seeking what I know I wouldn't get... My mom's paintings aren't always to my taste, I find a lot of the subject boring and I have no idea why she'd paint them. But the execution is wonderful, she's a great painter and it's been so nice to watch her get better and better and see how happy it makes her. She is NOT capable of reciprocating that for me....she doesn't think it's cool I'm trying something new, she thinks I'm doing some other dumb weird childish thing like I always am in her mind.