THE COMING OUT TALK DUN DUN DUNNNN
Aug. 27th, 2005 07:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
emothyOMG I just had the coming out conversation with my mum.
Or as we're referring to it now, the "half coming out" conversation. She doesn't understand, and says so quite plainly, but she's trying. That's all I care about. And she's not going to tell anyone, and let them come to me and ask, if they ever do.
Thursday evening Carrie came round after work and we were on the sofa watching TV after we'd eaten and she had her arm round me (you know, on the back of the sofa then it just "slips" down round the shoulders - most cliche move EVER and I told her so too) and my parents were out. We heard the door go so we sprang apart, but mum says now that her and dad saw us and she made the noise to warn us before her friend Lin and her daughter Suzie saw us and caused a big confusion thing.
Apparently my dad was more okay with it initially than she was. His reaction was, "well... at least she's not a guy." (meaning that it's worse for guys to be gay than girls but whatever), but mum was telling me she really had trouble with the whole "is she isn't she" wondering before talking to me about it. And she keeps saying "so there's still a CHANCE for grandchildren then!" like it's some big deal. Pffft, kids.
All in all, considering that's the only time I'm going to have that talk with my parents in this lifetime, I guess it went okay. I mean, no-one hates me. And I assured mum nothing's going on with me and Carrie right now. She warned me about older girls ;) I think I'm WELL aware dude. Well aware.
Eh so yeah I guess I'll just have to keep an eye out at work now, see if anyone is going to say anything to me coz mum reckons all this "hanging around with Carrie" I'm doing, and the fact she's a great big tomboyish lesbian stereotype, is going to get me branded by association.
We'll see.
Or as we're referring to it now, the "half coming out" conversation. She doesn't understand, and says so quite plainly, but she's trying. That's all I care about. And she's not going to tell anyone, and let them come to me and ask, if they ever do.
Thursday evening Carrie came round after work and we were on the sofa watching TV after we'd eaten and she had her arm round me (you know, on the back of the sofa then it just "slips" down round the shoulders - most cliche move EVER and I told her so too) and my parents were out. We heard the door go so we sprang apart, but mum says now that her and dad saw us and she made the noise to warn us before her friend Lin and her daughter Suzie saw us and caused a big confusion thing.
Apparently my dad was more okay with it initially than she was. His reaction was, "well... at least she's not a guy." (meaning that it's worse for guys to be gay than girls but whatever), but mum was telling me she really had trouble with the whole "is she isn't she" wondering before talking to me about it. And she keeps saying "so there's still a CHANCE for grandchildren then!" like it's some big deal. Pffft, kids.
All in all, considering that's the only time I'm going to have that talk with my parents in this lifetime, I guess it went okay. I mean, no-one hates me. And I assured mum nothing's going on with me and Carrie right now. She warned me about older girls ;) I think I'm WELL aware dude. Well aware.
Eh so yeah I guess I'll just have to keep an eye out at work now, see if anyone is going to say anything to me coz mum reckons all this "hanging around with Carrie" I'm doing, and the fact she's a great big tomboyish lesbian stereotype, is going to get me branded by association.
We'll see.
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Date: 2005-08-28 01:13 am (UTC)It was a big relief though afterwards, Carrie called after I texted her about it, and she said, "but don't you feel relieved now?" and I realised I really kind of do. Like after I first told my friends, except I'm not purposely going to sit and talk about girls with my parents now am I. *would shoot self first*