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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 9563689" data-attributes="member: 19675">I lived through the Satanic Panic in Texas myself.  My parents are Catholics (as am I), and many of my older relatives were very religious- including a great aunt who was a nun.  I went to a private HS run by Catholic monks.  On paper, I’d seem like a prime candidate for some kind of overreaction to my playing D&D and a growing interest in heavy metal.But even though my parents had concerns, they did NOT give into the hysteria.  They trusted me- and not all of my relatives did.  Nothing was ever confiscated or thrown away.Even more surprisingly, I started an RPG club at my school that played on-site and had a faculty monitor (like all the clubs).  The only manifestation of the Satanic Panic at my school was from the art teacher who became a Born Again Christian.  He went from playing the best of the best New Wave tapes on his boom box during class to giving those cassettes away and playing New Age music instead.*  But beyond the occasional comment like, “I see Satan in your works, _______.” directed at my D&D/fantasy art pieces, he never let his opinion of the condition of my soul affect my grades or our relationship, which remains avuncular to this day.  (He still teaches at that school, too.)But I DID see & hear what was going on in the rest of America regarding RPGs & metal at the time, so I generally don’t let my interests in either one be part of anyone’s first impressions of me.  (Outside of the obvious contexts where that might occur naturally.)* I like New Age too, but I was bummed I didn’t get any of the tapes he ditched.</blockquote>

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