You Brainwashed Me To Hate Myself (16x20 original) "Why aren't you more like

"Why aren't you more like your brother

So I'd smile to hide my pain and anger

As a kid I was taught that being angry is a sin

so I wouldn't get in trouble

even if they're different than we are

You Brainwashed Me To Hate Myself (16x20 original) "Why aren't you more likeGrowing up, I always felt like the church taught me to despise myself because I was guilty & bad for merely existing. There was never anything I could do right and everything wrong with me was my fault. They told me if I prayed & believed enough that God would heal me from the pain of my sexual trauma, but when that healing never came during countless church services, they always turned it back around and blamed me for my lack of healing telling me