Our social circle greatly influences our worldview. So those who do not know any police officers, archeologists, or singers might inadvertently mysticize their jobs.
An artist is one of those professions that many fail to understand and, therefore, show the respect that it deserves. This woman, for example, has to endure her family members calling her work a hobby.
In a candid Reddit post, she said that the situation had gotten so bad that they even used her status to promote her 8-year-old niece, refusing to acknowledge that it had damaged her livelihood.
This artist allowed her 8-year-old niece to have some space on her comic con table
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But the girl’s parents thought it was not enough and demanded more
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As her story went viral, the woman joined the discussion in its comments
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