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6th Aug 2006, 10:21 PM
(I have no idea why i'm doing this. I think I just want it off my chest. Sorry about the length)
Me coming out to my parents at the time I did, was SO not my decision. Here's the story.
Basically, one night, I was talking to a friend on MSN and we eventually started talking about girls. He talked about all this stuff he did with a girl, and I thought he was just trying to be macho, so i said, yeah, whatever. Well, he ends up sending me a picture of her flashing a webcam. I was a little dumbstruck. I thought he was totally screwing with me.
This next part, I'm not proud of, but I was still in shock at the time. I was talking to another friend on MSN and kind of blurted out what happened. He told me to shutup, because I was obviously lying. I'm sorry to say, that I just sent it to him without thinking to try and show him. About a second later, I came to my senses and deleted it and told him to do the same. He did.
End of story, right?
Wrong.
Something that I didn't know at the time was that he was on a school club trip, and he was using their laptop alone in a hotel room. (Obviously, if I had known that, I never would have sent it.) The worst of it? She's in that club! So, someone comes in and my friend goes to use the washroom. By the time he comes back, the other guy who walked in has gone into the Recycling Bin, found the picture, and then made it the Desktop photo. (This guy is so retarded I want to smack him!) He then finds her and says, "Look who I found." Showing her the picture. Well, she manages to trace it back to me.
It gets worse.
She doesn't bother to confront me about this,w hich would have been easier. She went to my brother. Note: My brother is psychotic, for the sake of not wanting to write for an hour, I'll spare you the details. (He's 17 I'm 15) So, he finds out, goes ballistic, and demands to search my comptuer. Of course, I say no, and he freaks, ends up practically taking me and my parents hostage demanding to be allowed to search my computer. So, privately, I explained to them, my situation and then they went off to talk to him, and thought they had compromised by talking him down, to not being allowed to touch my computer but him being allowed to be present while my father searches. Well, they come back, telling me the deal, saying that since the photo was deleted anyway, what did it matter? Well I explained that I did have porn on the computer (I know, sue me) They said that they couldn't care less, and that he wouldn't either. Valid point, but I had porn of males too. So, I had to cave and explain that I was bisexual. They were totally cool with it (I love them so much for that) but they then realised that if my brother found out, that would be the end of me.
From there on in, my parents ended up just wiping it so that he couldn't search it, and if i had by chance not deleted the photo, it was gone for good then.
So yeah, I just though I would share that. It's just a bad experience and it's nice to be able to talk about it. I hope everyone else here has had outed themselves on their own terms!
Me coming out to my parents at the time I did, was SO not my decision. Here's the story.
Basically, one night, I was talking to a friend on MSN and we eventually started talking about girls. He talked about all this stuff he did with a girl, and I thought he was just trying to be macho, so i said, yeah, whatever. Well, he ends up sending me a picture of her flashing a webcam. I was a little dumbstruck. I thought he was totally screwing with me.
This next part, I'm not proud of, but I was still in shock at the time. I was talking to another friend on MSN and kind of blurted out what happened. He told me to shutup, because I was obviously lying. I'm sorry to say, that I just sent it to him without thinking to try and show him. About a second later, I came to my senses and deleted it and told him to do the same. He did.
End of story, right?
Wrong.
Something that I didn't know at the time was that he was on a school club trip, and he was using their laptop alone in a hotel room. (Obviously, if I had known that, I never would have sent it.) The worst of it? She's in that club! So, someone comes in and my friend goes to use the washroom. By the time he comes back, the other guy who walked in has gone into the Recycling Bin, found the picture, and then made it the Desktop photo. (This guy is so retarded I want to smack him!) He then finds her and says, "Look who I found." Showing her the picture. Well, she manages to trace it back to me.
It gets worse.
She doesn't bother to confront me about this,w hich would have been easier. She went to my brother. Note: My brother is psychotic, for the sake of not wanting to write for an hour, I'll spare you the details. (He's 17 I'm 15) So, he finds out, goes ballistic, and demands to search my comptuer. Of course, I say no, and he freaks, ends up practically taking me and my parents hostage demanding to be allowed to search my computer. So, privately, I explained to them, my situation and then they went off to talk to him, and thought they had compromised by talking him down, to not being allowed to touch my computer but him being allowed to be present while my father searches. Well, they come back, telling me the deal, saying that since the photo was deleted anyway, what did it matter? Well I explained that I did have porn on the computer (I know, sue me) They said that they couldn't care less, and that he wouldn't either. Valid point, but I had porn of males too. So, I had to cave and explain that I was bisexual. They were totally cool with it (I love them so much for that) but they then realised that if my brother found out, that would be the end of me.
From there on in, my parents ended up just wiping it so that he couldn't search it, and if i had by chance not deleted the photo, it was gone for good then.
So yeah, I just though I would share that. It's just a bad experience and it's nice to be able to talk about it. I hope everyone else here has had outed themselves on their own terms!