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Coming out to my mom


Katalyst13

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So yeah. I came out to my mom the other day. Her response was unexpected to say the least.

I told her how I came to the realization that I was ace and all that. She was super supportive and awesome about it, which I'm so grateful for. But then she came out to me! Yeah, turns out my mom is bisexual.

Still haven't told my dad. He's a lot more closed minded. But having told my mom made me feel a whole lot better.

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Congratulations!

Hopefully your dad will be as awesome as your mum was :) . I haven't properly come out to my mum but she really doesn't understand asexuality so I'm explaining it to her without explicitly telling her my own situation. My dad doesn't really matter here as I don't even talk to him but I bet he'd be the same as yours.

Best of luck again with coming out to your father and anyone else you feel you want to,

Badger.

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Wow, I'm glad that you mum was supportive of you. And her coming out must have been a real shock to you! I hope that if you come out to your dad is is just as accepting of you as your mum was.

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In retrospect, it wasn't exactly shocking. Just unexpected. Seeing as my mom loves burlesque and drove the ARC truck in the pride parade, the fact that she's bi didn't come as too much of a surprise. It was still awesome though.

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UncommonNonsense

Awesome! Awesome! Awesome!

**does happy dance**

I love it when I hear about parents who are supportive of their ace/gay/lesbian/bi/pan/aro/NB/etc kids... and especially parents who either don't know what asexual is but are willing to learn, or already know what asexuality is and are supportive. And even though these are still somewhat a minority, but that minority is growing, and that makes me happy.

My own Mum was fine about my being ace. It is a total non-issue to her. I think she suspected that I was disinterested in sex long before she (or I) knew there was a word for it. After all, the only person I 'dated' in high school was my gay best friend... and we pretended to be dating only to get the bullies off his back. Our respective parents knew we weren't gettin' it on, but our friends and the rest of the students had no idea that every time we vanished into each others' bedrooms, we were only listening to Broadway musicals and drawing each other (fully clothed).

My aceness is such a non-issue to Mum that she doesn't even get why problems like erasure bother me. To Mum, the fact that I exist and am ace invalidates other peoples' attempts to state that asexuality isn't real, that asexuality isn't an orientation, or that asexuals don't need official legal protections just like LGBT people do.. and that can be a little frustrating.

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