A TRAVELLER has shared a list of things that girls on her community are not allowed to do. She revealed that women aren't allowed to drink until they are married, and are banned from sleepovers with non-travellers. Zoey took to TikTok to share an insight into her life as an Irish traveller.
She said: "Before we get married, we aren't allowed to drink, and we're not allowed to smoke". She added that even though she is now married, there is no way she would ever smoke. "Jesus Christ, that's so disgusting", she said.
Another thing that Zoey was not allowed to do when she was a child, was mix with people from outside the traveller community. "You can mix with them in school, but outside school you're not allowed", she said. When Zoey was a child, she said she would never even bother asking her parents if she could have a sleepover at a non- traveller's house, as she knew the answer would be no.
"That would never happen in a million years", she said. Another cultural difference between travellers and non-travellers is that they drop out of school when they are very young. Zoey explained that some travellers don't even go to secondary school at all, whilst others drop out when they are around 13.
She said that she herself stopped attending school when she was around 13 or 14. "What's the point of going to school?", she said. "Because being a traveller, you're never going to be able to get a job".
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