I come from a very conservative family, at least among my father's family there have been also religious fanatics. That was hardly part of my life luckily, on t

I come from a very conservative family, at least among my father's family there have been also religious fanatics. That was hardly part of my life luckily, on the other hand open dissent (from younger ones) was hardly ever accepted. It was either met with ridicule, anger or shock. Actually both my mother and my sister also have been influenced a lot with their job choice. For me it has been quite a struggle to choose the studies and job I want to do involving stopping contact with my father almost completely without being faced constant criticism, persuasion and ridicule. Also showing showing happiness is expected. For me it's completely counter-intuitive what is acceptable and what not in terms of disagreement or even which opinions are okay to voice. I had to "manually" learn this.