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two years ago today i came out to my mom, and then subsequently came out to my dad. i was terrified about how things would change and if they would actually accept me, especially when it wasn’t originally my choice that...
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two years ago today i came out to my mom, and then subsequently came out to my dad. i was terrified about how things would change and if they would actually accept me, especially when it wasn’t originally my choice that...
...they knew and i was essentially outed to my mom. i didn’t know what to do or how to feel. i’m not going to lie, it was hard, and it stayed hard and weird for weeks afterwards. they weren’t exactly perfectly accepting. i could tell that they were trying to reconcile this...
...completely life changing information about me with the me that they knew. it was hard for them to accept that this wasn’t actually new, and that i have always been this person they now see. even if neither of us knew it from the get-go. to this day they don’t like to talk...
...about it. i actually have no clue how they really, truly feel about the fact that i’m not straight. my mother especially doesn’t particularly like to talk about, or be around conversations revolving around the LGBTQ+ community in my presence. i don’t know how she reacts...
...when i’m not around, but i know that she would rather not talk or be around it while i’m also with her. however, i have no way of knowing if it is because she is uncomfortable, or if she wishes not to make me uncomfortable. she doesn’t talk about it, and avoids it when it...
...comes up, so i don’t bring it up. we both could do better at communicating, especially since this topic is so important. i suppose that is my fatal flaw, i am willing to go to great lengths, and make myself unendingly uncomfortable in order to make the people i care about...
...happy. but i’ve gotten off topic. i started this thread in order to tell whoever is reading this that it can get better. it may be hard, and it may seem impossible right now. it may even be impossible right now, but things will change, time will force them to. you have the...
...strength to get better. i promise that you have that strength, even if it doesn’t seem like it right now. if you are struggling and it seems like it’s taking everything in you to even stay where you are, then you have that strength. you are strong just by being...
...here. you belong. you deserve to be here. you deserve to get better, and i know you have the strength to because you’ve made it this far. i thought my whole world would fall apart that night. now two years later i’m graduating high school, i’m in college, and i have a...
...wonderful girlfriend that i don’t want to be without. i couldn’t see the light at the end of the tunnel, but now it’s here, and blinding me with the possibilities. i’m not going to lie and say that i haven’t struggled to get here, because i have. and i’m sure that i will...
...also struggle later on. because healing is not linear. but if you asked me two years ago how i thought everything would be now—hell, if you had asked me from a year ago that, i would not have even remotely begun to describe how my life is now. i have healed and grown and...
...changed in ways that i didn’t think i ever could, and i know that you can too. it may take a while, and that is okay. everyones experiences are different, and not everyone reacts to things or heal the same way. i promise you that it will get better. you are strong enough to...
...survive. you are strong enough to make it better. i believe that you can make it. i believe that in time you will be able to get better. i believe that because you have been strong enough to get here, then you are strong enough to keep going. I believe in you.
