my dad never jived with it. nor did my siblings. my friends didn't like it at all, either, calling it too manic. so whenever i tried to share this music with anybody i liked i would get frustrated and embarrassed. i eventually stopped listening to it. years later i figured i had just grown out of it, some weird ska phase in my life in my angsty and misguided years. but recently i've been listening to a lot of ska. and i realiz
 ed, fuck
  it, i love this stuff. and everyone else is actually the weird one. this music speaks to me in ways that other music just does not really. i'm pissed that i was talked out of a love of mine. and now that i'm reclaiming this, i'm faced with the same challenge. i want to share this love but i feel so alone.
find people online who like the same stuff you do. youtube, reddit, many other places