National Coming Out Day
Oct. 12th, 2009 08:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wyntarvoxI completely missed that it was National Coming Out Day (and given that the UK celebrates on October 12, I'm going to assume that we will too, so I'm not late).
I came out "completely" a few months ago. Until then all of my friends and most of my extended family knew, but I hadn't told my parents. I posted about it at the time, so I won't go over the story again except to say that it was completely fine and all the anxiety was unfounded.
Until I told my parents I thought I was comfortable with myself. I didn't feel like I was pretending to be anyone else, because I thought I was completely being myself except they didn't know I liked guys. No huge deal, right? I was so surprised at exactly how much weight was lifted off when I did tell my parents.
I don't really act any differently now they know and I think I'm just as much myself as I was before, except that I don't have to be careful about my choice of words when talking about relationships etc. It's also much easier not to have to dodge the marriage/children/girlfriends conversations.
I know that compared to a lot of people, my coming out turned out to be really easy and I'm so thankful for that. My only regret is that I didn't do it sooner.
I came out "completely" a few months ago. Until then all of my friends and most of my extended family knew, but I hadn't told my parents. I posted about it at the time, so I won't go over the story again except to say that it was completely fine and all the anxiety was unfounded.
Until I told my parents I thought I was comfortable with myself. I didn't feel like I was pretending to be anyone else, because I thought I was completely being myself except they didn't know I liked guys. No huge deal, right? I was so surprised at exactly how much weight was lifted off when I did tell my parents.
I don't really act any differently now they know and I think I'm just as much myself as I was before, except that I don't have to be careful about my choice of words when talking about relationships etc. It's also much easier not to have to dodge the marriage/children/girlfriends conversations.
I know that compared to a lot of people, my coming out turned out to be really easy and I'm so thankful for that. My only regret is that I didn't do it sooner.