Let's just just start this by me saying, I did NOT plan on making a whole big deal of officially coming out. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ So I've always been super open about my gender and sexuality. I don't care if people know if I have a boyfriend / girlfriend, and I'll talk smack about binding, how I'm the most fabulous person ever "like I truly am" and all that. I really don't care what people think. My school is VERY accepting of LGBTQIA+ kids, and we actually have a decent sized community of us in our school. Most of my grade didn't know though since I don't tend to have classes with my own grade. Half of them probably forgot I existed (though half my grade is scum, so I don't really care.) Anyway, I need to shut up and tell the story now. One day, we had this assembly exclusive to my grade called "The Truth About Hate". I went in there with a negative attitude thinking "this is just one of those stupid shitty assemblies that they try to inspire us with but fail." Typical me thoughts. Turns out, that assembly was legit. A lot of it was real-talk about hate in our school community. Then we got to the open mic section. I really wanted to go up, but for nothing coming out related to be honest. I wanted to talk about how a LOT of people say I'm disrespectful and all this stuff because I swear a lot at my parents, but it's basically because my family is broken. I wanted to basically say "don't assume things if you don't know someone's story and lifestyle" if you get what I mean. When I was trying to explain my familial situation, I accidentally kinda let out "I'm pansexual and genderfluid, and my parents don't accept it. They're the kind of people to be like "I had a gay friend in college" but then when it comes to their own kids, they're totally against it." Then, came the tears, since I cry like a bitch at EVERYTHING. Luckily, I have the best friends a kid could ask for, and next thing I knew I had a pack of nerds really awesome people giving me a big group hug. Sadly, I made other people cry... Whoops OTL But on the bright side, according to almost everyone, I had the most powerful speech of the day! ~~~~~~~~~~~ Ohhotdamn that was long winded I'm so sorry |D
Wow, that's very courageous of you! I always wished I had that same amount of courage when I was your age. But, then there's really that perfect time for everone...and you nailed it! I hope your parents will accept who you are sooner. BTW, why strikeout the "nerd"? Us nerds are awesome!
Super happy that you have the support of your friends . I'm sorry about your parents though. That was very brave of you
