Darren Waller

Both my dad's parents and my mom's dad.

So my maternal grandfather.

Yeah.

And so the main thing is, like I said, there's so many positive qualities that came from it.

But one of the things I think lacked was like a place for like emotional understanding and acceptance.

Because I never really felt like there was a –

in my home, it was like my emotions where I could be able to express them.

I don't think they were ever, I mean, there were times where I was just like, you know, kind of like the, you know, like my dad one time was like, just like crying while you cry so much, like one, one experience like that.

And that kind of like made me be like, all right, well, all right.

Like, I'm not going to cry and kind of,

hold things in and just, just carry them to myself.

So that just like, cause the households they grew up in, there probably wasn't space for them to necessarily.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And I feel like it was like a like an experience where, you know, I'm sure my dad had a bunch on his plate at the time.

And it was probably a time where I was like crying a lot and just like very sensitive and just like in one moment you can be like, all right, like, what is this?

Like, why are you doing this so much?

But for me, that was like, oh, like I shouldn't.

Be like this.

And so from there, it was it turned into a lot of just like stuffing things down.