#Growingupsomali

[Life]

When your mom yelled "Abahada Wass" at you

When the lullabies you grew up on were brutal

When the back part of the remote was always missing

When you got told about the story about the woman who threw the kitaab and turned into whatever this is:

When this was the cure for all of your diseases

When your mom told you "at the age of 7 I was running a whole household, feeding everybody from human, animal and jinns!!"

When your mom told you that you were going to Dubai but you ended up stranded in badiyo.



Continue....

 

[HanadR6]

'Abaha was' is no longer a swear word in my household, "abaha was" is equivalent to warya and nayaa in my household

 

[Nostalgia]

I will never understand parents that say to they kids abaha w....I even remember hearing a Somali lady saying to her kid once and I told her she could say abaha cuun at least if she has to curse. She looked at me as if I was a shaydan for telling her how to raise her kids. My parents never used this on us alhamdulillāh.



I remember not knowing my parents name until like the age of 7 lol, always used to say abo and hooyo when people asked me their name. I never got that much beats as kid but the threats alone was enough to give a kid trauma... 'Wirr & Aarr'.

When my mum bought home an African phone card, we knew that night was going to be lots of buuq and we'd tread it.

 

[Abdisamad]

I will never understand parents that say to they kids abaha w....I even remember hearing a Somali lady saying to her kid once and I told her she could say abaha cuun at least if she has to curse. She looked at me as if I was a shaydan for telling her how to raise her kids. My parents never used this on us alhamdulillāh.



I remember not knowing my parents name until like the age of 7 lol, always used to say abo and hooyo when people asked me their name. I never got that much beats as kid but the threats alone was enough to give a kid trauma... 'Wirr & Aarr'.

When my mum bought home an African phone card, we knew that night was going to be lots of buuq and we'd tread it.

Luckily it's not all mothers who say this to their children..

 

[Xasusi]

My mothers never sworn in my presence.


It's a trashy low class thing.

 

[psyche]

Whenever you disagree with your hooyo's opinion and she decides to pull the 'I carried you for 9 months' card like it validates her point.

 

[Radical]

I've watched almost every iconic horror movie as a kid and witnessed people getting slaughtered at the hands of Freddy/Jason/leatherface/predator/alien/that pale Asian chick with strange movements etc

Those never made me even flinch, but that fucking dog lady traumatized me so much, I'm still hesitant on scrolling back up and seeing that grotesque posture and body hair again.

 

[Xanibacal bin Barqa]

When you come back home after a long day of herding and looking after them goats iyo laxo, then they start counting them , and it turns out labo laxood are missing , and it's already night time , it's pitch black outside , but you undoubtedly know if you don't find laba laxood caawa you will not live to see the qorax tomorrow.

 

[Radical]

Carrying on with the topic, anyone notice how Somali mothers avoid doing certain things at night? Things which are considered normal during the day

They'll tell you to not...
Cut your hair at night
Trim your nails at night
Looking at a mirror

 

[Luciddreamer]

pretending to be dumber than them so they could maintain image and power
while having 7 different operations going on

 

[Daacad90]

 

[Shmurda]

When your aabo says hooyada wus but shes your stepmom

 

[Daacad90]

You know you are Somali when your hooyo put saalid macsaro forcibly all over your face before you went to school and no kids talked to you at school cause your forehead looked like this:

 

[HanadR6]

When there's no discrimination by hooyo

When you hear your siblings getting beat, and you know your next, I always hid under something, then hooyo will walk in and say "hanado hooyo maku garacayiy" I came out all happy, then SLAP, I was knocked out.

Walhi I hated my sister so much, but the beatings got the better of us, and we decided to settle the 8 year beef we had between eachother

 

[nomadicblood]

Growing up somali:


Relatives from back home sending pics like this:

 

[nomadicblood]

Growing up somali:


Relatives from back home sending me pics like this:

I sometimes want to adjust and say things like
Ilahi ha ku barakayo and send this:

 

[Odkac WRLD]

Whenever I said anything that wasn’t within hooyos views she’d say I carried you 9 months

one day in elementary school I decided to be a smart ass and say “you chose to”

I got the shit beat out of me

 

[Yukon_Niner]

When your aabo says hooyada wus but shes your stepmom

You got fucking problems wallahi, go to a fucking sex therapist.

 

[Shmurda]

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You got fucking problems wallahi, go to a fucking sex therapist.

Its a joke nigga

 

[Yukon_Niner]

Its a joke nigga

You know I never realised how disgusting it is because I thought that shit was white people crap. That gif made 100x worse.


I have to give it to you that was horrible