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Snails

Discussion in 'Coming Out Stories' started by FlynnEnby, Oct 16, 2015.

  1. FlynnEnby

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    This is the story of my first coming out, well it was more like an explosion of confusion then a coherent coming out..

    So i study biology in univeristy and one day last year me and my best friend who is in the same course (lets call her Julia) stayed late at uni cos we both had to finish a lab report about snails which was due the next day. Except all i could think about was this other girl in our course (Maya) cos I had a crush on Maya except I'd never had a crush on a girl before so I was rather confused. So we were sitting their writing about snails and i turned to Julia and:

    me: I have a problem
    her: huh?
    me: Maya
    her: ..she's cool, wait why is this a problem?
    me: cos like she's really cute..like i think she's cute..like really cute
    her: oh..so you like her?
    me: i dunno, yes maybe kinda?

    at this point we just went out into the hallway cos so we could talk and just stayed there for like half an hour with me freaking out and telling her everything i had been feeling, basically just an explosion of my feeling and confusion. And she was really supportive and everything cos she's a brilliant human being, then:

    her: so ok this is really important and i'm glad you told me...but snails
    me: snails?
    her: you know..snail report, for tomorrow
    me: oh yea
    her: so stop thinking about how girls are apparently pretty and think about snails
    me: -laughing my ass off at this point- but snails ain't pretty
    her: unfortunately no

    So then we returned to finishing our reports, but i was still kinda distracted and kept staring at the wall and thinking about Maya. So whenever Julia noticed me doing that she hit me with her pen and said i could only think about pretty girls after i was done with snails xD

    So that's the first time i came out, and now me and Julia can't see a snail without starting to laugh :lol: its rather amusing when other humans are around cos they can't understand why a snail is so funny

    Julia is seriously amazing though, like this way a year ago and through the whole time of me figuring shit out I've always had her to talk to about anything and everything
    and I'm so glad i have this awesome human in my life
     
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    Where's the like button? So glad you had such a warm coming out experience! <3 By the way, did you make it with this Maya? *eyebrow wiggle; shot*
     
  3. FlynnEnby

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    Nah turns out Maya is straight. We're friends though and its cool, I don't have a crush on her anymore. She also knows I'm a lesbian now and she's cool with it
    Hooray for awesome friends :lol:
     
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    That is an awesome coming out. Snails. I'll never look at them the same way again.
    And congrats on such great friends
     
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    Tell me again about how snails ain't pretty?
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    But seriously, congratulations on coming out!
     
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    I think snails are cute...but girls are cuter :icon_bigg

    Congrats, though! Experiences that result in inside jokes are always the best.
     
  7. FlynnEnby

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    Try staring at snails for 7 hours in a lab while trying to identify them to species level, and I don't mean big snails, i mean tiny tiny snails that you can only see clearly under a stereo microscope..then having to look for some barely visible detail which would distinguish one species from another... do that and see if you still think snails are cute :lol:


    (though actually under a stereo microscope little snail faces are rather adorable xD )
     
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    That was a very cute story. Thanks for sharing :slight_smile:
    You have an amazing friend, I have to say, so cool that you can talk with her like this :slight_smile: