what on sunday
Annnnnnnd. Our phone and internet bills did not get paid, so this is the first time I've been online since friday. >:((((( I'm slightly grumpy about it. Sorry.
I realise I still have comments from last week to answer but-
How did you come out to your family? Did you? Do you plan to? Have you ever had someone in your family come out to you? What was it like?
It's something I've been thinking about a lot lately - disclosing, and the experience as a parent mourning for the child you thought you had. I've been thinking about how changing your name legally is essentially killing off your parent's child, killing the part of you that belongs to them as hopes or wishes or the life stories that they built for you before you were born. Yes, nothing of you truly changes, but at the same time that person is not longer there, and really never existed in the first place. It's strange. I don't think I'm explaining it well. I wrote a whole essay on the weird sense of disassociation I have about it sometimes, but I'm not really ready to post it. Anyway.
How did you come out, etc?
ETA & TMI: Someone in here has extremely bad body odor, it's kind of making me nauseous. I know this is where the hippies hang out (it's kind of why i'm here), but god if you aren't going to bathe please at least cease to eat meat. Blech.
I realise I still have comments from last week to answer but-
How did you come out to your family? Did you? Do you plan to? Have you ever had someone in your family come out to you? What was it like?
It's something I've been thinking about a lot lately - disclosing, and the experience as a parent mourning for the child you thought you had. I've been thinking about how changing your name legally is essentially killing off your parent's child, killing the part of you that belongs to them as hopes or wishes or the life stories that they built for you before you were born. Yes, nothing of you truly changes, but at the same time that person is not longer there, and really never existed in the first place. It's strange. I don't think I'm explaining it well. I wrote a whole essay on the weird sense of disassociation I have about it sometimes, but I'm not really ready to post it. Anyway.
How did you come out, etc?
ETA & TMI: Someone in here has extremely bad body odor, it's kind of making me nauseous. I know this is where the hippies hang out (it's kind of why i'm here), but god if you aren't going to bathe please at least cease to eat meat. Blech.